ext4: Fix ext4 nomballoc allocator for ENOSPC
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:09:17 +0000 (23:09 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:09:17 +0000 (23:09 -0400)
commit68629f29c6764c37ebdceec2f6bbef6637eaf420
treeed3a3c537c6a3c0dc2e2b1937ca5b66dc4b4e370
parent5c79161689aede2d487d707d5931a22eadf66120
ext4: Fix ext4 nomballoc allocator for ENOSPC

We run into ENOSPC error on nonmballoc ext4, even when there is free blocks
on the filesystem.

The patch includes two changes:

a) Set reservation to NULL if we trying to allocate near group_target_block
from the goal group if the free block in the group is less than windows.
This should give us a better chance to allocate near group_target_block.
This also ensures that if we are not allocating near group_target_block
then we don't trun off reservation. This should enable us to allocate
with reservation from other groups that have large free blocks count.

b) we don't need to check the window size if the block reservation is off.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/balloc.c