From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Call sb_issue_allocate() after extent range was allocated on user request. Hopeful, this helps block device to maintain its internals in the best way, if this is appliable. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 ++ fs/ext4/extents.c | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index 61b37a052052..0d0fa9904147 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -622,6 +622,8 @@ enum { * allows jbd2 to avoid submitting data before commit. */ #define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_SUBMIT 0x0400 +#define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_SUBMIT_ALLOC 0x0800 + /* * The bit position of these flags must not overlap with any of the * EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_*. They are used by ext4_find_extent(), diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 954013d6076b..37a60e190349 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4449,6 +4449,14 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, ar.len = allocated; got_allocated_blocks: + if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_SUBMIT_ALLOC) && + inode->i_fop->fallocate) { + err = sb_issue_allocate(inode->i_sb, newblock, + EXT4_C2B(sbi, allocated_clusters), GFP_NOFS); + if (err) + goto free_on_err; + } + /* try to insert new extent into found leaf and return */ ext4_ext_store_pblock(&newex, newblock + offset); newex.ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ar.len); @@ -4466,6 +4474,7 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, &path, &newex, flags); +free_on_err: if (err && free_on_err) { int fb_flags = flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DELALLOC_RESERVE ? EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_NO_QUOT_UPDATE : 0; @@ -4733,7 +4742,8 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset, goto out_mutex; } - flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNWRIT_EXT; + flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNWRIT_EXT | + EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_SUBMIT_ALLOC; if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE; -- 2.22.0