diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index b81fe125e51..9045234093e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -113,6 +113,22 @@ struct ext4_allocation_request {
 	unsigned int flags;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Delayed allocation stuff
+ */
+
+struct mpage_da_data {
+	struct inode *inode;
+	sector_t b_blocknr;		/* start block number of extent */
+	size_t b_size;			/* size of extent */
+	unsigned long b_state;		/* state of the extent */
+	unsigned long first_page, next_page;	/* extent of pages */
+	struct writeback_control *wbc;
+	int io_done;
+	int pages_written;
+	int retval;
+};
+
 /*
  * Special inodes numbers
  */
@@ -929,6 +945,7 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
 	unsigned int s_mb_stats;
 	unsigned int s_mb_order2_reqs;
 	unsigned int s_mb_group_prealloc;
+	unsigned int s_max_writeback_mb_bump;
 	/* where last allocation was done - for stream allocation */
 	unsigned long s_mb_last_group;
 	unsigned long s_mb_last_start;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 2ca924812cd..81fe02da87e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1145,6 +1145,64 @@ static int check_block_validity(struct inode *inode, const char *msg,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Return the number of dirty pages in the given inode starting at
+ * page frame idx.
+ */
+static pgoff_t ext4_num_dirty_pages(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t idx,
+				    unsigned int max_pages)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+	pgoff_t	index;
+	struct pagevec pvec;
+	pgoff_t num = 0;
+	int i, nr_pages, done = 0;
+
+	if (max_pages == 0)
+		return 0;
+	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
+	while (!done) {
+		index = idx;
+		nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
+					      PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
+					      (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE);
+		if (nr_pages == 0)
+			break;
+		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+			struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
+			struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
+
+			lock_page(page);
+			if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping) ||
+			    !PageDirty(page) ||
+			    PageWriteback(page) ||
+			    page->index != idx) {
+				done = 1;
+				unlock_page(page);
+				break;
+			}
+			head = page_buffers(page);
+			bh = head;
+			do {
+				if (!buffer_delay(bh) &&
+				    !buffer_unwritten(bh)) {
+					done = 1;
+					break;
+				}
+			} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
+			unlock_page(page);
+			if (done)
+				break;
+			idx++;
+			num++;
+			if (num >= max_pages)
+				break;
+		}
+		pagevec_release(&pvec);
+	}
+	return num;
+}
+
 /*
  * The ext4_get_blocks() function tries to look up the requested blocks,
  * and returns if the blocks are already mapped.
@@ -1880,22 +1938,6 @@ static void ext4_da_page_release_reservation(struct page *page,
 	ext4_da_release_space(page->mapping->host, to_release);
 }
 
-/*
- * Delayed allocation stuff
- */
-
-struct mpage_da_data {
-	struct inode *inode;
-	sector_t b_blocknr;		/* start block number of extent */
-	size_t b_size;			/* size of extent */
-	unsigned long b_state;		/* state of the extent */
-	unsigned long first_page, next_page;	/* extent of pages */
-	struct writeback_control *wbc;
-	int io_done;
-	int pages_written;
-	int retval;
-};
-
 /*
  * mpage_da_submit_io - walks through extent of pages and try to write
  * them with writepage() call back
@@ -2756,8 +2798,10 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	int no_nrwrite_index_update;
 	int pages_written = 0;
 	long pages_skipped;
+	unsigned int max_pages;
 	int range_cyclic, cycled = 1, io_done = 0;
-	int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
+	int needed_blocks, ret = 0;
+	long desired_nr_to_write, nr_to_writebump = 0;
 	loff_t range_start = wbc->range_start;
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(mapping->host->i_sb);
 
@@ -2784,16 +2828,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	if (unlikely(sbi->s_mount_flags & EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED))
 		return -EROFS;
 
-	/*
-	 * Make sure nr_to_write is >= sbi->s_mb_stream_request
-	 * This make sure small files blocks are allocated in
-	 * single attempt. This ensure that small files
-	 * get less fragmented.
-	 */
-	if (wbc->nr_to_write < sbi->s_mb_stream_request) {
-		nr_to_writebump = sbi->s_mb_stream_request - wbc->nr_to_write;
-		wbc->nr_to_write = sbi->s_mb_stream_request;
-	}
 	if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
 		range_whole = 1;
 
@@ -2808,6 +2842,36 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
 	} else
 		index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 
+	/*
+	 * This works around two forms of stupidity.  The first is in
+	 * the writeback code, which caps the maximum number of pages
+	 * written to be 1024 pages.  This is wrong on multiple
+	 * levels; different architectues have a different page size,
+	 * which changes the maximum amount of data which gets
+	 * written.  Secondly, 4 megabytes is way too small.  XFS
+	 * forces this value to be 16 megabytes by multiplying
+	 * nr_to_write parameter by four, and then relies on its
+	 * allocator to allocate larger extents to make them
+	 * contiguous.  Unfortunately this brings us to the second
+	 * stupidity, which is that ext4's mballoc code only allocates
+	 * at most 2048 blocks.  So we force contiguous writes up to
+	 * the number of dirty blocks in the inode, or
+	 * sbi->max_writeback_mb_bump whichever is smaller.
+	 */
+	max_pages = sbi->s_max_writeback_mb_bump << (20 - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
+	if (!range_cyclic && range_whole)
+		desired_nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write * 8;
+	else
+		desired_nr_to_write = ext4_num_dirty_pages(inode, index,
+							   max_pages);
+	if (desired_nr_to_write > max_pages)
+		desired_nr_to_write = max_pages;
+
+	if (wbc->nr_to_write < desired_nr_to_write) {
+		nr_to_writebump = desired_nr_to_write - wbc->nr_to_write;
+		wbc->nr_to_write = desired_nr_to_write;
+	}
+
 	mpd.wbc = wbc;
 	mpd.inode = mapping->host;
 
@@ -2926,7 +2990,8 @@ retry:
 out_writepages:
 	if (!no_nrwrite_index_update)
 		wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update = 0;
-	wbc->nr_to_write -= nr_to_writebump;
+	if (wbc->nr_to_write > nr_to_writebump)
+		wbc->nr_to_write -= nr_to_writebump;
 	wbc->range_start = range_start;
 	trace_ext4_da_writepages_result(inode, wbc, ret, pages_written);
 	return ret;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 66d65e936aa..c030a9a58ff 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2199,6 +2199,7 @@ EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_min_to_scan, s_mb_min_to_scan);
 EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_order2_req, s_mb_order2_reqs);
 EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_stream_req, s_mb_stream_request);
 EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_group_prealloc, s_mb_group_prealloc);
+EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(max_writeback_mb_bump, s_max_writeback_mb_bump);
 
 static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] = {
 	ATTR_LIST(delayed_allocation_blocks),
@@ -2212,6 +2213,7 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] = {
 	ATTR_LIST(mb_order2_req),
 	ATTR_LIST(mb_stream_req),
 	ATTR_LIST(mb_group_prealloc),
+	ATTR_LIST(max_writeback_mb_bump),
 	NULL,
 };
 
@@ -2681,6 +2683,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	}
 
 	sbi->s_stripe = ext4_get_stripe_size(sbi);
+	sbi->s_max_writeback_mb_bump = 128;
 
 	/*
 	 * set up enough so that it can read an inode
diff --git a/include/trace/events/ext4.h b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
index 718b0d9293e..824979e6067 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/ext4.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages,
 		__field(	char,	for_reclaim		)
 		__field(	char,	for_writepages		)
 		__field(	char,	range_cyclic		)
+		__field(       pgoff_t,	writeback_index		)
 	),
 
 	TP_fast_assign(
@@ -245,14 +246,51 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages,
 		__entry->for_reclaim	= wbc->for_reclaim;
 		__entry->for_writepages	= wbc->for_writepages;
 		__entry->range_cyclic	= wbc->range_cyclic;
+		__entry->writeback_index = inode->i_mapping->writeback_index;
 	),
 
-	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu nr_t_write %ld pages_skipped %ld range_start %llu range_end %llu nonblocking %d for_kupdate %d for_reclaim %d for_writepages %d range_cyclic %d",
-		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev), __entry->ino, __entry->nr_to_write,
+	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu nr_to_write %ld pages_skipped %ld range_start %llu range_end %llu nonblocking %d for_kupdate %d for_reclaim %d for_writepages %d range_cyclic %d writeback_index %lu",
+		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev),
+		  (unsigned long) __entry->ino, __entry->nr_to_write,
 		  __entry->pages_skipped, __entry->range_start,
 		  __entry->range_end, __entry->nonblocking,
 		  __entry->for_kupdate, __entry->for_reclaim,
-		  __entry->for_writepages, __entry->range_cyclic)
+		  __entry->for_writepages, __entry->range_cyclic,
+		  (unsigned long) __entry->writeback_index)
+);
+
+TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_write_pages,
+	TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, struct mpage_da_data *mpd),
+
+	TP_ARGS(inode, mpd),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(	dev_t,	dev			)
+		__field(	ino_t,	ino			)
+		__field(	__u64,	b_blocknr		)
+		__field(	__u32,	b_size			)
+		__field(	__u32,	b_state			)
+		__field(	unsigned long,	first_page	)
+		__field(	int,	io_done			)
+		__field(	int,	pages_written		)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->dev		= inode->i_sb->s_dev;
+		__entry->ino		= inode->i_ino;
+		__entry->b_blocknr	= mpd->b_blocknr;
+		__entry->b_size		= mpd->b_size;
+		__entry->b_state	= mpd->b_state;
+		__entry->first_page	= mpd->first_page;
+		__entry->io_done	= mpd->io_done;
+		__entry->pages_written	= mpd->pages_written;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu b_blocknr %llu b_size %u b_state 0x%04x first_page %lu io_done %d pages_written %d",
+		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev), (unsigned long) __entry->ino,
+		  __entry->b_blocknr, __entry->b_size,
+		  __entry->b_state, __entry->first_page,
+		  __entry->io_done, __entry->pages_written)
 );
 
 TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
@@ -270,6 +308,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
 		__field(	char,	encountered_congestion	)
 		__field(	char,	more_io			)	
 		__field(	char,	no_nrwrite_index_update )
+		__field(       pgoff_t,	writeback_index		)
 	),
 
 	TP_fast_assign(
@@ -281,13 +320,16 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
 		__entry->encountered_congestion	= wbc->encountered_congestion;
 		__entry->more_io	= wbc->more_io;
 		__entry->no_nrwrite_index_update = wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update;
+		__entry->writeback_index = inode->i_mapping->writeback_index;
 	),
 
-	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu ret %d pages_written %d pages_skipped %ld congestion %d more_io %d no_nrwrite_index_update %d",
-		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev), __entry->ino, __entry->ret,
+	TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu ret %d pages_written %d pages_skipped %ld congestion %d more_io %d no_nrwrite_index_update %d writeback_index %lu",
+		  jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev),
+		  (unsigned long) __entry->ino, __entry->ret,
 		  __entry->pages_written, __entry->pages_skipped,
 		  __entry->encountered_congestion, __entry->more_io,
-		  __entry->no_nrwrite_index_update)
+		  __entry->no_nrwrite_index_update,
+		  (unsigned long) __entry->writeback_index)
 );
 
 TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_write_begin,