Re: [RFC]Ext4: journal credits reservation fixes for DIO, fallocate and delalloc writepages

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

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:07:33PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
.....

> > > > >   *
> > > > > @@ -1142,13 +1133,13 @@ int ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, 
> > > > >  	handle_t *handle = ext4_journal_current_handle();
> > > > >  	int ret = 0, started = 0;
> > > > >  	unsigned max_blocks = bh_result->b_size >> inode->i_blkbits;
> > > > > +	int dio_credits = EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
> > > > 
> > > > Again this should be
> > > > 	int dio_credits = ext4_writeblocks_trans(inode, DIO_MAX_BLOCKS);
> > > > 
> > > No. DIO case is different than writepages(). When get_block() is called
> > > from DIO path, the get_block()  is called in a loop, and the credit is
> > > reserved inside the loop. Each time get_block(),will return a single
> > > extent, so we should use   EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb) which is
> > > calculate a single chunk of allocation credits.
> > 
> > 
> > That is true only for extent format. With noextents we need something
> > like below
> > 
> 
> Not really, even with non extent format block allocation, ext4_get_block() will only allocate/map a chunk of contiguous blocks (i.e. an extent), so it will not hit the worse case.
> 
> > if (!(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL))
> > 	dio_credits = ext4_writeblocks_trans_credits_old(inode, max_blocks);
> > else {
> > 	/*
> > 	 * For extent format get_block return only one extent
> > 	 */
> > 	dio_credits = EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);
> > }
> > 
> > 
> 

but dio_credits = EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb);  doesn't account
for updating the bitmap and group descriptor related to all indirect and
dindirect and tindirect blocks allocated.

We actually need
a) 1 bitmap for the blocks allocatted
b) 1 group desc for the blocks allocatted
c) 2 indirect
d) 2 dindirect
e) 1 tindirect
f) 5 bitmap for the indirect blocks allocated (2 + 2 + 1)
g) 5 group desc for the indirect blocks allocated
h) 1 inode
i) 1 super blocks
j) 2 * EXT4_QUOTA_TRANS_BLOCKS for quota


-aneesh