GFS2: Make atime checks more efficient
We do not need to start a transaction unless the atime
check has proved positive. Also if we are going to flush
the complete ail list anyway, we might as well skip the
writeback for this specific inode's metadata, since that
will be done as part of the ail writeback process in an
order offering potentially more efficient I/O.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/super.c b/fs/gfs2/super.c
index b7beadd..afb8761 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/super.c
@@ -768,30 +768,30 @@
goto do_flush;
unlock_required = 1;
}
- ret = gfs2_trans_begin(sdp, RES_DINODE, 0);
- if (ret)
- goto do_unlock;
ret = gfs2_meta_inode_buffer(ip, &bh);
if (ret == 0) {
di = (struct gfs2_dinode *)bh->b_data;
atime.tv_sec = be64_to_cpu(di->di_atime);
atime.tv_nsec = be32_to_cpu(di->di_atime_nsec);
if (timespec_compare(&inode->i_atime, &atime) > 0) {
- gfs2_trans_add_bh(ip->i_gl, bh, 1);
- gfs2_dinode_out(ip, bh->b_data);
+ ret = gfs2_trans_begin(sdp, RES_DINODE, 0);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ gfs2_trans_add_bh(ip->i_gl, bh, 1);
+ gfs2_dinode_out(ip, bh->b_data);
+ gfs2_trans_end(sdp);
+ }
}
brelse(bh);
}
- gfs2_trans_end(sdp);
-do_unlock:
if (unlock_required)
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
do_flush:
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), ip->i_gl);
- filemap_fdatawrite(metamapping);
if (bdi->dirty_exceeded)
gfs2_ail1_flush(sdp, wbc);
+ else
+ filemap_fdatawrite(metamapping);
if (!ret && (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL))
ret = filemap_fdatawait(metamapping);
if (ret)