Re: [PATCH] ext4: group cache is added in ext4_mb_discard_preallocations()

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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
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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