This patch avoids an extraneous lookup of the extent cache in ext4_ext_map_blocks() when the flag EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PUNCH_OUT_EXT is absent. The existing logic was performing the lookup but not making use of the result. The patch simply reverses the order of evaluation in the condition. Since ext4_ext_in_cache() does not initialize newex on misses, bypassing its invocation does not introduce any new issue in this regard. Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Gouriou <egouriou@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index eb63c7b..fed2633 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -3358,8 +3358,8 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, trace_ext4_ext_map_blocks_enter(inode, map->m_lblk, map->m_len, flags); /* check in cache */ - if (ext4_ext_in_cache(inode, map->m_lblk, &newex) && - ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PUNCH_OUT_EXT) == 0)) { + if (!(flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PUNCH_OUT_EXT) && + ext4_ext_in_cache(inode, map->m_lblk, &newex)) { if (!newex.ee_start_lo && !newex.ee_start_hi) { if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE) == 0) { /* -- 1.7.1 -- 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