The patch titled Subject: mm/truncate: avoid pointless cleancache_invalidate_inode() calls. has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-truncate-avoid-pointless-cleancache_invalidate_inode-calls.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-truncate-avoid-pointless-cleancache_invalidate_inode-calls.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-truncate-avoid-pointless-cleancache_invalidate_inode-calls.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/truncate: avoid pointless cleancache_invalidate_inode() calls. cleancache_invalidate_inode() called truncate_inode_pages_range() and invalidate_inode_pages2_range() twice - on entry and on exit. It's stupid and waste of time. It's enough to call it once at exit. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170424164135.22350-5-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/truncate.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/truncate.c~mm-truncate-avoid-pointless-cleancache_invalidate_inode-calls mm/truncate.c --- a/mm/truncate.c~mm-truncate-avoid-pointless-cleancache_invalidate_inode-calls +++ a/mm/truncate.c @@ -266,9 +266,8 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct a pgoff_t index; int i; - cleancache_invalidate_inode(mapping); if (mapping->nrpages == 0 && mapping->nrexceptional == 0) - return; + goto out; /* Offsets within partial pages */ partial_start = lstart & (PAGE_SIZE - 1); @@ -363,7 +362,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct a * will be released, just zeroed, so we can bail out now. */ if (start >= end) - return; + goto out; index = start; for ( ; ; ) { @@ -410,6 +409,8 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct a pagevec_release(&pvec); index++; } + +out: cleancache_invalidate_inode(mapping); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages_range); @@ -623,9 +624,8 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct int ret2 = 0; int did_range_unmap = 0; - cleancache_invalidate_inode(mapping); if (mapping->nrpages == 0 && mapping->nrexceptional == 0) - return 0; + goto out; pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); index = start; @@ -689,6 +689,8 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct cond_resched(); index++; } + +out: cleancache_invalidate_inode(mapping); return ret; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are fs-fix-data-invalidation-in-the-cleancache-during-direct-io.patch fs-block_dev-always-invalidate-cleancache-in-invalidate_bdev.patch mm-truncate-bail-out-early-from-invalidate_inode_pages2_range-if-mapping-is-empty.patch mm-truncate-avoid-pointless-cleancache_invalidate_inode-calls.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html