4dc7b109c5d74fa955970a8528ec90e20b06 parent a1d6cc563bfdf1bf2829d3e6ce4d8b774251796b author Mingming Cao 1219198558 -0400 committer Theodore Ts'o 1219198558 -0400 ext4: journal credit fix for the delayed allocation's writepages() function Previous delalloc writepages implementation started a new transaction outside of a loop which called get_block() to do the block allocation. Since we didn't know exactly how many blocks would need to be allocated, the estimated journal credits required was very conservative and caused many issues. With the reworked delayed allocation, a new transaction is created for each get_block(), thus we don't need to guess how many credits for the multiple chunk of allocation. We start every transaction with enough credits for inserting a single exent. When estimate the credits for indirect blocks to allocate a chunk of blocks, we need to know the number of data blocks to allocate. We use the total number of reserved delalloc datablocks; if that is too big, for non-extent files, we need to limit the number of blocks to EXT4_MAX_TRANS_BLOCKS. Code cleanup from Aneesh. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao Reviewed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"