Re: [PATCH] ext4: Avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode()

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> These days inode reclaim calls evict_inode() only when it has no pages
> in the mapping. In that case it is not necessary to wait for transaction
> commit in ext4_evict_inode() as there can be no pages waiting to be
> committed. So avoid unnecessary transaction waiting in that case.
> 
> We still have to keep the check for the case where ext4_evict_inode()
> gets called from other paths (e.g. umount) where inode still can have
> some page cache pages.
> 
> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted



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