[PATCH 11/21] fs: xfs: Don't use low-space allocator for alignment > 1
John Garry
john.g.garry at oracle.com
Tue Oct 3 03:22:46 PDT 2023
On 03/10/2023 04:00, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>> How does this happen?
>>
>> The earlier failing aligned allocations will clear alignment before
>> we get here....
> I was thinking the predicate should be xfs_inode_force_align(ip) to save
> me/us from thinking about all the other weird ways args->alignment could
> end up 1.
>
> /* forced-alignment means we don't use low mode */
> if (xfs_inode_force_align(ip))
My idea was that if we add another feature which requires
args->alignment > 1 be honoured, then we would need to change this code
to cover both features, so better just check args->alignment > 1.
> return -ENOSPC;
Thanks,
John
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