From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> If we think that inactivation will free enough blocks to make it easier to satisfy an fallocate request, force inactivation. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c index 6553d533d659..5b66f89d5f36 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include "xfs_icache.h" #include "xfs_iomap.h" #include "xfs_reflink.h" +#include "xfs_sb.h" /* Kernel only BMAP related definitions and functions */ @@ -697,6 +698,41 @@ xfs_free_eofblocks( return error; } +/* + * If we suspect that the target device isn't going to be able to satisfy the + * entire request, try forcing inode inactivation to free up space. While it's + * perfectly fine to fill a preallocation request with a bunch of short + * extents, we'd prefer to do the inactivation work now to combat long term + * fragmentation in new file data. + */ +static void +xfs_alloc_reclaim_inactive_space( + struct xfs_mount *mp, + bool is_rt, + xfs_filblks_t allocatesize_fsb) +{ + struct xfs_perag *pag; + struct xfs_sb *sbp = &mp->m_sb; + xfs_extlen_t free; + xfs_agnumber_t agno; + + if (is_rt) { + if (sbp->sb_frextents * sbp->sb_rextsize >= allocatesize_fsb) + return; + } else { + for (agno = 0; agno < mp->m_sb.sb_agcount; agno++) { + pag = xfs_perag_get(mp, agno); + free = pag->pagf_freeblks; + xfs_perag_put(pag); + + if (free >= allocatesize_fsb) + return; + } + } + + xfs_inactive_force(mp); +} + int xfs_alloc_file_space( struct xfs_inode *ip, @@ -786,6 +822,8 @@ xfs_alloc_file_space( quota_flag = XFS_QMOPT_RES_REGBLKS; } + xfs_alloc_reclaim_inactive_space(mp, rt, allocatesize_fsb); + /* * Allocate and setup the transaction. */