From c3aab9a0bd91b696a852169479b7db1ece6cbf8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:34:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no
dirty pages
Git-commit: c3aab9a0bd91b696a852169479b7db1ece6cbf8c
Patch-mainline: v5.4-rc1
References: bsc#1168884
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.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156378816804.1087.8607636317907921438.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
mm/filemap.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 5f30aedd7363..82f3b9a3a940 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);
--
2.16.4