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authorBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>2012-12-20 13:23:04 -0500
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2013-01-02 10:05:27 +0000
commit13d2eb012927b03ac1b80202af5aa9abc4003bd5 (patch)
treee2145f0cdd69a53edeb915efd9712e2ebba19f45 /fs/gfs2
parent15bd50ad82a6d3421af1abe82e2554898abc4141 (diff)
downloadlinux-13d2eb012927b03ac1b80202af5aa9abc4003bd5.tar.bz2
GFS2: Reset rd_last_alloc when it reaches the end of the rgrp
In function rg_mblk_search, it's searching for multiple blocks in a given state (e.g. "free"). If there's an active block reservation its goal is the next free block of that. If the resource group contains the dinode's goal block, that's used for the search. But if neither is the case, it uses the rgrp's last allocated block. That way, consecutive allocations appear after one another on media. The problem comes in when you hit the end of the rgrp; it would never start over and search from the beginning. This became a problem, since if you deleted all the files and data from the rgrp, it would never start over and find free blocks. So it had to keep searching further out on the media to allocate blocks. This patch resets the rd_last_alloc after it does an unsuccessful search at the end of the rgrp. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2')
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/rgrp.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
index 712dd4fd8641..b7eff078fe90 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
@@ -1426,6 +1426,9 @@ static void rg_mblk_search(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd, struct gfs2_inode *ip,
rs->rs_free = extlen;
rs->rs_inum = ip->i_no_addr;
rs_insert(ip);
+ } else {
+ if (goal == rgd->rd_last_alloc + rgd->rd_data0)
+ rgd->rd_last_alloc = 0;
}
}