* Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Using CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN only make sense for regular files, as for
> non-regular files we never normalize the allocation request length i.e.
> goal len is same as original length (ac_g_ex.fe_len == ac_o_ex.fe_len).
>
> Hence there is no scope of trimming the goal length to make it
> satisfy original request len. Thus this patch avoids using
> CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN criteria for non-regular files request.
>
> Fixes: 33122aa930f1 ("ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)")
> Reported-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index 3ab37533349f..bc004f5d3f3c 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -975,7 +975,18 @@ static void ext4_mb_choose_next_group_goal_fast(struct ext4_allocation_context *
> *group = grp->bb_group;
> ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_CR_GOAL_LEN_FAST_OPTIMIZED;
> } else {
> - *new_cr = CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN;
> + /*
> + * CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN works based on the concept that we have
> + * a larger normalized goal len request which can be trimmed to
> + * a smaller goal len such that it can still satisfy original
> + * request len. However, allocation request for non-regular
> + * files never gets normalized.
> + * See function ext4_mb_normalize_request() (EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA).
> + */
> + if (ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA)
> + *new_cr = CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN;
> + else
> + *new_cr = CR_GOAL_LEN_SLOW;
> }
> }
>
> --
> 2.40.1
>
Works for me on 6.5-rc2 with this patch applied - 500/500 generic/269 trials
passed on bigalloc_1k.
Tested-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks!
Eric
