We only really need to update i_version if someone has queried for it since we last incremented it. By doing that, we can avoid having to update the inode if the times haven't changed. If the times have changed, then we go ahead and forcibly increment the counter, under the assumption that we'll be going to the storage anyway, and the increment itself is relatively cheap. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 2484d91ae8ef..584516a32905 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1621,17 +1621,18 @@ static int relatime_need_update(const struct path *path, struct inode *inode, int generic_update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags) { int iflags = I_DIRTY_TIME; + bool dirty = flags & ~S_VERSION; if (flags & S_ATIME) inode->i_atime = *time; - if (flags & S_VERSION) - inode_inc_iversion(inode, true); if (flags & S_CTIME) inode->i_ctime = *time; if (flags & S_MTIME) inode->i_mtime = *time; + if (flags & S_VERSION) + dirty |= inode_inc_iversion(inode, dirty); - if (!(inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_LAZYTIME) || (flags & S_VERSION)) + if (dirty || !(inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_LAZYTIME)) iflags |= I_DIRTY_SYNC; __mark_inode_dirty(inode, iflags); return 0; @@ -1850,7 +1851,7 @@ int file_update_time(struct file *file) if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now)) sync_it |= S_CTIME; - if (IS_I_VERSION(inode)) + if (IS_I_VERSION(inode) && inode_iversion_need_inc(inode)) sync_it |= S_VERSION; if (!sync_it) -- 2.7.4 -- 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