1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 5b088121686a..5120243024fb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ static int ext4_alloc_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                                 int indirect_blks, int blks,
                                 ext4_fsblk_t new_blocks[4], int *err)
 {
+        struct ext4_allocation_request ar;
         int target, i;
         unsigned long count = 0, blk_allocated = 0;
         int index = 0;
@@ -595,10 +596,17 @@ static int ext4_alloc_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
         if (!target)
                 goto allocated;
         /* Now allocate data blocks */
-        count = target;
-        /* allocating blocks for data blocks */
-        current_block = ext4_new_blocks(handle, inode, iblock,
-                                                goal, &count, err);
+        memset(&ar, 0, sizeof(ar));
+        ar.inode = inode;
+        ar.goal = goal;
+        ar.len = target;
+        ar.logical = iblock;
+        if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+                /* enable in-core preallocation only for regular files */
+                ar.flags = EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA;
+
+        current_block = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, err);
+
         if (*err && (target == blks)) {
                 /*
                  * if the allocation failed and we didn't allocate
@@ -614,7 +622,7 @@ static int ext4_alloc_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                  */
                         new_blocks[index] = current_block;
                 }
-                blk_allocated += count;
+                blk_allocated += ar.len;
         }
 allocated:
         /* total number of blocks allocated for direct blocks */