GFS2: Only increase rs_sizehint
authorBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:02:29 +0000 (08:02 -0500)
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:25:41 +0000 (19:25 +0000)
commit33ad5d54284adf110f6e78aa9c4f42d3d17d7f68
treec6a8aa392ef601695d67f3747ac224ac36e4e843
parent0e27c18c30f6850ecd0fb67143f202f0426d76d7
GFS2: Only increase rs_sizehint

If an application does a sequence of (1) big write, (2) little write
we don't necessarily want to reset the size hint based on the smaller
size. The fact that they did any big writes implies they may do more,
and therefore we should try to allocate bigger block reservations, even
if the last few were small writes. Therefore this patch changes function
gfs2_size_hint so that the size hint can only grow; it cannot shrink.
This is especially important where there are multiple writers.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
fs/gfs2/file.c