tree 7ddadff1a3f0f4f6814104aed42f20c52a7f5f24
parent 6bc6e63fcd7dac9e633ea29f1fddd9580ab28f3f
author Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1223522010 -0400
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1223522010 -0400

ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count.

The delayed allocation code allocates blocks during writepages(), which
can not handle block allocation failures.  To deal with this, we switch
away from delayed allocation mode when we are running low on free
blocks.  This also allows us to avoid needing to reserve a large number
of meta-data blocks in case all of the requested blocks are
discontiguous.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>