The patch titled mm: direct IO starvation improvement has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-direct-io-starvation-improvement.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: direct IO starvation improvement From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Direct IO can invalidate and sync a lot of pagecache pages in the mapping. A 4K direct IO will actually try to sync and/or invalidate the pagecache of the entire file, for example (which might be many GB or TB large). Improve this by doing range syncs. Also, memory no longer has to be unmapped to catch the dirty bits for syncing, as dirty bits would remain coherent due to dirty mmap accounting. This fixes the immediate DM deadlocks when doing direct IO reads to block device with a mounted filesystem, if only by papering over the problem somewhat rather than addressing the fsync starvation cases. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap.c | 16 +++++----------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/filemap.c~mm-direct-io-starvation-improvement mm/filemap.c --- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-direct-io-starvation-improvement +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -1317,7 +1317,8 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb goto out; /* skip atime */ size = i_size_read(inode); if (pos < size) { - retval = filemap_write_and_wait(mapping); + retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, + pos + iov_length(iov, nr_segs) - 1); if (!retval) { retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(READ, iocb, iov, pos, nr_segs); @@ -2059,18 +2060,10 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb * if (count != ocount) *nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, *nr_segs, count); - /* - * Unmap all mmappings of the file up-front. - * - * This will cause any pte dirty bits to be propagated into the - * pageframes for the subsequent filemap_write_and_wait(). - */ write_len = iov_length(iov, *nr_segs); end = (pos + write_len - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; - if (mapping_mapped(mapping)) - unmap_mapping_range(mapping, pos, write_len, 0); - written = filemap_write_and_wait(mapping); + written = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos, pos + write_len - 1); if (written) goto out; @@ -2290,7 +2283,8 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb * the file data here, to try to honour O_DIRECT expectations. */ if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) && written) - status = filemap_write_and_wait(mapping); + status = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, + pos, pos + written - 1); return written ? written : status; } _ 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