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Greg Harm committed 3c6fe77017b
ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent. If an fallocate request fits in EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN, then set the EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE flag. For larger fallocate requests, let mballoc.c normalize the request. This fixes a problem where large requests were being split into non-contiguous extents due to commit 556b27abf73: ext4: do not normalize block requests from fallocate. Testing: *) Checked that 8.x MB falloc'ed files are still laid down next to each other (contiguously). *) Checked that the maximum size extent (127.9MB) is allocated as 1 extent. *) Checked that a 1GB file is somewhat contiguous (often 5-6 non-contiguous extents now). *) Checked that a 120MB file can still be falloc'ed even if there are no single extents large enough to hold it. Signed-off-by: Greg Harm <gharm@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>