GFS2: move toward a generic multi-block allocator
This patch is a revision of the one I previously posted.
I tried to integrate all the suggestions Steve gave.
The purpose of the patch is to change function gfs2_alloc_block
(allocate either a dinode block or an extent of data blocks)
to a more generic gfs2_alloc_blocks function that can
allocate both a dinode _and_ an extent of data blocks in the
same call. This will ultimately help us create a multi-block
reservation scheme to reduce file fragmentation.
This patch moves more toward a generic multi-block allocator that
takes a pointer to the number of data blocks to allocate, plus whether
or not to allocate a dinode. In theory, it could be called to allocate
(1) a single dinode block, (2) a group of one or more data blocks, or
(3) a dinode plus several data blocks.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
index 4cb5608..b3b61b8 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
extern int gfs2_inplace_reserve(struct gfs2_inode *ip);
extern void gfs2_inplace_release(struct gfs2_inode *ip);
-extern int gfs2_alloc_block(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 *bn, unsigned int *n,
- int dinode, u64 *generation);
+extern int gfs2_alloc_blocks(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 *bn, unsigned int *n,
+ bool dinode, u64 *generation);
extern void __gfs2_free_blocks(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen, int meta);
extern void gfs2_free_meta(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen);