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ext2: Avoid loading bitmaps for full groups during block allocation
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There is no point in loading bitmap for groups which are completely full.
This causes noticeable performance problems (and memory pressure) on small
systems with large full filesystem
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=126843108314310&w=2).

Port of the same ext3 patch.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Jan Kara committed May 21, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -1331,6 +1331,12 @@ ext2_fsblk_t ext2_new_blocks(struct inode *inode, ext2_fsblk_t goal,
goto io_error;

free_blocks = le16_to_cpu(gdp->bg_free_blocks_count);
/*
* skip this group (and avoid loading bitmap) if there
* are no free blocks
*/
if (!free_blocks)
continue;
/*
* skip this group if the number of
* free blocks is less than half of the reservation
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