ext4: check for a good block group before loading buddy pages
This adds a new field in ext4_group_info to cache the largest available
block range in a block group; and don't load the buddy pages until *after*
we've done a sanity check on the block group.
With large allocation requests (e.g., fallocate(), 8MiB) and relatively full
partitions, it's easy to have no block groups with a block extent large
enough to satisfy the input request length. This currently causes the loop
during cr == 0 in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() to load the buddy bitmap pages
for EVERY block group. That can be a lot of pages. The patch below allows
us to call ext4_mb_good_group() BEFORE we load the buddy pages (although we
have check again after we lock the block group).
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2578108
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2704453
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index bf938cf..d266003 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1678,6 +1678,7 @@
ext4_grpblk_t bb_first_free; /* first free block */
ext4_grpblk_t bb_free; /* total free blocks */
ext4_grpblk_t bb_fragments; /* nr of freespace fragments */
+ ext4_grpblk_t bb_largest_free_order;/* order of largest frag in BG */
struct list_head bb_prealloc_list;
#ifdef DOUBLE_CHECK
void *bb_bitmap;