ext4: Use inode preallocation with -o noextents

When mballoc is enabled, block allocation for old block-based
files are allocated using mballoc allocator instead of old
block-based allocator. The old ext3 block reservation is turned
off when mballoc is turned on.

However, the in-core preallocation is not enabled for block-based/
non-extent based file block allocation. This result in performance
regression, as now we don't have "reservation" ore in-core preallocation
to prevent interleaved fragmentation in multiple writes workload.

This patch fix this by enable per inode in-core preallocation
for non extent files when mballoc is used.

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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 0bfeae18f1a2..d44a7fb6a7b1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -970,10 +970,13 @@ extern ext4_grpblk_t ext4_block_group_offset(struct super_block *sb,
 extern int ext4_bg_has_super(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group);
 extern unsigned long ext4_bg_num_gdb(struct super_block *sb,
                         ext4_group_t group);
-extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_block (handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
+extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                         ext4_fsblk_t goal, int *errp);
-extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_blocks (handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
+extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                         ext4_fsblk_t goal, unsigned long *count, int *errp);
+extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
+                                        ext4_lblk_t iblock, ext4_fsblk_t goal,
+                                        unsigned long *count, int *errp);
 extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_blocks_old(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                         ext4_fsblk_t goal, unsigned long *count, int *errp);
 extern void ext4_free_blocks (handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,