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Chao Yu committed 46008c6d423
f2fs: support in batch multi blocks preallocation This patch introduces reserve_new_blocks to make preallocation of multi blocks as in batch operation, so it can avoid lots of redundant operation, result in better performance. In virtual machine, with rotational device: time fallocate -l 32G /mnt/f2fs/file Before: real 0m4.584s user 0m0.000s sys 0m4.580s After: real 0m0.292s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.272s In x86, with SSD: time fallocate -l 500G $MNT/testfile Before : 24.758 s After : 1.604 s Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> [Jaegeuk Kim: fix bugs and add performance numbers measured in x86.] Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>