Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't load the block bitmap for block groups which have no space

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 8/10/12 1:21 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Add a short circuit check to ext4_mb_group_group() so that we don't
> bother to load the block bitmap for a block group which does not have
> any space available.  (Or which does not have enough space until we
> are in desperation mode, i.e., when cr == 3.)
> 
> Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45741
> Reported-by: mirek@xxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>

Looks ok to me; I think this just further optimizes what was done
in

8a57d9d61a6e361c7bb159dda797672c1df1a691
ext4: check for a good block group before loading buddy pages

correct?

-Eric

> ---
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index 8eae947..3a57975 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -1862,6 +1862,12 @@ static int ext4_mb_good_group(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
>  
>  	BUG_ON(cr < 0 || cr >= 4);
>  
> +	free = grp->bb_free;
> +	if (free == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +	if (cr <= 2 && free < ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	/* We only do this if the grp has never been initialized */
>  	if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp))) {
>  		int ret = ext4_mb_init_group(ac->ac_sb, group);
> @@ -1869,10 +1875,7 @@ static int ext4_mb_good_group(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
>  			return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	free = grp->bb_free;
>  	fragments = grp->bb_fragments;
> -	if (free == 0)
> -		return 0;
>  	if (fragments == 0)
>  		return 0;
>  
> 

--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Reiser Filesystem Development]     [Ceph FS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite National Park]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux