The patch titled mm: write_cache_pages terminate quickly has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-write_cache_pages-terminate-quickly.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: write_cache_pages terminate quickly From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Terminate the write_cache_pages loop upon encountering the first page past end, without locking the page. Pages cannot have their index change when we have a reference on them (truncate, eg truncate_inode_pages_range performs the same check without the page lock). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-write_cache_pages-terminate-quickly mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-write_cache_pages-terminate-quickly +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -911,15 +911,24 @@ retry: for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; - done_index = page->index + 1; - /* - * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor - * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or - * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even - * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file - * mapping + * At this point, the page may be truncated or + * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or + * even swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file + * mapping. However, page->index will not change + * because we have a reference on the page. */ + if (page->index > end) { + /* + * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because + * end == -1 in that case. + */ + done = 1; + break; + } + + done_index = page->index + 1; + lock_page(page); /* @@ -936,15 +945,6 @@ continue_unlock: continue; } - if (page->index > end) { - /* - * can't be range_cyclic (1st pass) because - * end == -1 in that case. - */ - done = 1; - goto continue_unlock; - } - if (!PageDirty(page)) { /* someone wrote it for us */ goto continue_unlock; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch radix-tree-gang-set-if-tagged-operation.patch reiser4.patch fs-symlink-write_begin-allocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.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