Re: [PATCH] delalloc: Add block reservation estimate for non-extent files

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:11:31PM -0700, Mingming wrote:
> Add support for full delayed allocation over ext3 format file.
> 
> This patch added a function to estimate the number of indirect blocks need
> to reserve for non-extent based (ext3) file, in order to properly
> reserve the need amount of indirect blocks for delayed allocation.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rc6/fs/ext4/inode.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rc6.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c	2008-06-20 16:50:09.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc6/fs/ext4/inode.c	2008-06-20 17:36:08.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1426,6 +1426,36 @@ static int ext4_journalled_write_end(str
> 
>  	return ret ? ret : copied;
>  }
> +/*
> + * Calculate the number of metadata blocks need to reserve
> + * to allocate @blocks for non extent file based file
> + */
> +static int ext4_indirect_calc_metadata_amount(struct inode *inode, int blocks)
> +{
> +	int icap = EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(inode->i_sb);
> +	int ind_blks, dind_blks, tind_blks;
> +
> +	/* number of new indirect blocks needed */
> +	ind_blks = (blocks + icap - 1) / icap;
> +
> +	dind_blks = (ind_blks + icap - 1) / icap;
> +
> +	tind_blks = 1;
> +
> +	return ind_blks + dind_blks + tind_blks;
> +}
> +

With block mapped files using logical block number we should be able to
find out the exact number of meta-data blocks we would need. I am not sure
whether we need to be that complex is calculating the same.

-aneesh