Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches
based on more recent version of the tree.

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 264f6949511..f8224adf496 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -620,3 +620,51 @@ unsigned long ext4_bg_num_gdb(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group)
 
 }
 
+/**
+ *	ext4_inode_to_goal_block - return a hint for block allocation
+ *	@inode: inode for block allocation
+ *
+ *	Return the ideal location to start allocating blocks for a
+ *	newly created inode.
+ */
+ext4_fsblk_t ext4_inode_to_goal_block(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
+	ext4_group_t block_group;
+	ext4_grpblk_t colour;
+	int flex_size = ext4_flex_bg_size(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb));
+	ext4_fsblk_t bg_start;
+	ext4_fsblk_t last_block;
+
+	block_group = ei->i_block_group;
+	if (flex_size >= EXT4_FLEX_SIZE_DIR_ALLOC_SCHEME) {
+		/*
+		 * If there are at least EXT4_FLEX_SIZE_DIR_ALLOC_SCHEME
+		 * block groups per flexgroup, reserve the first block
+		 * group for directories and special files.  Regular
+		 * files will start at the second block group.  This
+		 * tends to speed up directory access and improves
+		 * fsck times.
+		 */
+		block_group &= ~(flex_size-1);
+		if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+			block_group++;
+	}
+	bg_start = ext4_group_first_block_no(inode->i_sb, block_group);
+	last_block = ext4_blocks_count(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es) - 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we are doing delayed allocation, we don't need take
+	 * colour into account.
+	 */
+	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, DELALLOC))
+		return bg_start;
+
+	if (bg_start + EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(inode->i_sb) <= last_block)
+		colour = (current->pid % 16) *
+			(EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(inode->i_sb) / 16);
+	else
+		colour = (current->pid % 16) * ((last_block - bg_start) / 16);
+	return bg_start + colour;
+}
+