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commit ecb68b84807e5165dd8c513023b3d2a6ddadf5ad
Author:     Alex Zhuravlev <bzzz@whamcloud.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 24 06:57:24 2020 +0300
LU-13291 ldiskfs: mballoc don't skip uninit-on-disk groups

as those need no IO to initialize buddy structures and the best
candidates for new blocks.

Fixes: 6a7a700a1490 ("LU-12988 ldiskfs: skip non-loaded groups at cr=0/1")
Signed-off-by: Alex Zhuravlev <bzzz@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <green@whamcloud.com>
Change-Id: Ic3c5a238d8825024d7a0fec6a25e842b7ba1f100
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/37687

--- linux-4.18/fs/ext4/mballoc.c	2019-11-28 14:55:26.500545920 +0300
+++ linux-4.18/fs/ext4/mballoc.c	2019-11-28 14:53:18.600086008 +0300
@@ -1885,6 +1885,21 @@ void ext4_mb_scan_aligned(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,

 	return 0;
 }
+
+static inline int ext4_mb_uninit_on_disk(struct super_block *sb,
+				    ext4_group_t group)
+{
+	struct ext4_group_desc *desc;
+
+	if (!ext4_has_group_desc_csum(sb))
+		return 0;
+
+	desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, group, NULL);
+	if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}

 /*
  * The routine scans buddy structures (not bitmap!) from given order
@@ -2060,7 +2060,15 @@ static int ext4_mb_good_group(struct
 
 	/* We only do this if the grp has never been initialized */
 	if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp))) {
-		int ret = ext4_mb_init_group(ac->ac_sb, group, GFP_NOFS);
+		int ret;
+
+		/* cr=0/1 is a very optimistic search to find large
+		 * good chunks almost for free. if buddy data is
+		 * not ready, then this optimization makes no sense */
+
+		if (cr < 2 && !ext4_mb_uninit_on_disk(ac->ac_sb, group))
+			return 0;
+		ret = ext4_mb_init_group(ac->ac_sb, group, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 	}