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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index ff08633f398e..93c5fdcdad2e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ inserted:
                         /* We need to allocate a new block */
                         ext4_fsblk_t goal = ext4_group_first_block_no(sb,
                                                 EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_group);
-                        ext4_fsblk_t block = ext4_new_block(handle, inode,
+                        ext4_fsblk_t block = ext4_new_meta_block(handle, inode,
                                                         goal, &error);
                         if (error)
                                 goto cleanup;