Functions like filemap_write_and_wait_range() should do nothing if inode
has no dirty pages or pages currently under writeback. But they anyway
construct struct writeback_control and this does some atomic operations
if CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK=y - on fast path it locks inode->i_lock and
updates state of writeback ownership, on slow path might be more work.
Current this path is safely avoided only when inode mapping has no pages.
For example generic_file_read_iter() calls filemap_write_and_wait_range()
at each O_DIRECT read - pretty hot path.
This patch skips starting new writeback if mapping has no dirty tags set.
If writeback is already in progress filemap_write_and_wait_range() will
wait for it.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru>
---
mm/filemap.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index d0cf700bf201..d9572593e5c7 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ int __filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space
*mapping, loff_t start,
.range_end = end,
};
- if (!mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping))
+ if (!mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping) ||
+ !mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
return 0;
wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode(&wbc, mapping->host);
