From 3574c322b1d0eb32dbd76b469cb08f9a67641599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:28:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: use optimized mballoc scanning regardless of inode format Currently we don't used mballoc optimized scanning (using max free extent order and avg free extent order group lists) for inodes with indirect block based format. This is confusing for users and I don't see a good reason for that. Even with indirect block based inode format we can spend big amount of time searching for free blocks for large filesystems with fragmented free space. To add to the confusion before commit 077d0c2c78df ("ext4: make mb_optimize_scan performance mount option work with extents") optimized scanning was applied *only* to indirect block based inodes so that commit appears as a performance regression to some users. Just use optimized scanning whenever it is enabled by mount options. Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114182836.14120-4-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 910b454b4a21..dbc82b65f810 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -1148,8 +1148,6 @@ static inline int should_optimize_scan(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) return 0; if (ac->ac_criteria >= CR_GOAL_LEN_SLOW) return 0; - if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(ac->ac_inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) - return 0; return 1; } -- 2.47.3