ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems

The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option.  It is
replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
disabled).  The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.

The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
blocks.  This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
like this:

debugfs:  stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
Inode: 1844562   Type: directory    Mode:  0700   Flags: 0x81000
Generation: 1132745781    Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
User: 15806   Group: 15806   Size: 1060864
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 2   Blockcount: 2072
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
 ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
 atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
 mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:
(0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
TOTAL: 259

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 2cbfc0b04d37..096456c8559b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -828,6 +828,12 @@ static inline int ext4_valid_inum(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 #define EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME 15000 /* 15ms */
 
 /*
+ * Minimum number of groups in a flexgroup before we separate out
+ * directories into the first block group of a flexgroup
+ */
+#define EXT4_FLEX_SIZE_DIR_ALLOC_SCHEME 4
+
+/*
  * Structure of a directory entry
  */
 #define EXT4_NAME_LEN 255