On 2010-03-30, at 06:36, jing zhang wrote:
--- linux-2.6.32/fs/ext4/mballoc.c 2009-12-03 11:51:22.000000000 +0800 +++ ext4_mm_leak/mballoc-13.c 2010-03-30 20:28:08.000000000 +0800 @@ -4183,12 +4183,20 @@ static int ext4_mb_discard_preallocation trace_ext4_mb_discard_preallocations(sb, needed); - for (i = 0; i < ngroups && needed > 0; i++) { - ret = ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(sb, i, needed); + if (needed <= 0) + return freed; + for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) { + if (grp_cache >= ngroups) + grp_cache -= ngroups; + ret = ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(sb, grp_cache, needed);
Anything that is walking every group in the filesystem is going to hit problems on large filesystems. This seems like something that needs to be fixed in a different way (e.g. keeping a list of preallocations).
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html