Current code will always truncate tailing page if its alloc_start is
smaller than inode size.
This behavior will cause a lot of unneeded COW page size extent.
This patch will avoid such problem.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
Newly introduced
v3:
None
---
fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index 35bfabf..e59b123 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -2640,7 +2640,7 @@ static long btrfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode,
alloc_start);
if (ret)
goto out;
- } else {
+ } else if (offset + len > inode->i_size) {
/*
* If we are fallocating from the end of the file onward we
* need to zero out the end of the page if i_size lands in the
--
2.6.1
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