Re: [PATCH 1/12] ext3 balloc: reset windowsz when full
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Mingming Cao wrote: > Port a series ext2 balloc patches from Hugh to ext3/4. The first 6 > patches are against ext3, and the rest are aginst ext4. Thanks for all that, Mingming: whichever is appropriate, all twelve Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll think about your other mails, those that need further thought, later on: I need to pin down more accurately the repetitious sequence of reservations in the mistaken case - maybe it indicated further issues, maybe not; and I need to consider our different views of the my_rsv find_next_usable_block. Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[PATCH 1/12] ext3 balloc: reset windowsz when full
Port a series ext2 balloc patches from Hugh to ext3/4. The first 6 patches are against ext3, and the rest are aginst ext4. -- Subject: ext2 balloc: reset windowsz when full From: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ext2_new_blocks should reset the reservation window size to 0 when squeezing the last blocks out of an almost full filesystem, so the retry doesn't skip any groups with less than half that free, reporting ENOSPC too soon. -- Sync up reservation fix from ext2 Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6.19-rc5-cmm/fs/ext3/balloc.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext3_reset_windowsz_in_full_fs fs/ext3/balloc.c --- linux-2.6.19-rc5/fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext3_reset_windowsz_in_full_fs 2006-11-28 19:36:41.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-cmm/fs/ext3/balloc.c 2006-11-28 19:36:41.0 -0800 @@ -1552,6 +1552,7 @@ retry_alloc: */ if (my_rsv) { my_rsv = NULL; + windowsz = 0; group_no = goal_group; goto retry_alloc; } _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html