Today we simply break out of the inner loop when we have accumulated max_pages; this keeps scanning forwad and doing pagevec_lookup_tag() in the while (!done) loop, this does potentially a lot of work with no net effect. When we have accumulated max_pages, just clean up and return. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 4b8debe..93497f6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1207,8 +1207,10 @@ static pgoff_t ext4_num_dirty_pages(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t idx, break; idx++; num++; - if (num >= max_pages) - break; + if (num >= max_pages) { + pagevec_release(&pvec); + return num; + } } pagevec_release(&pvec); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html