There is no reason to queue up ioends for processing in user context unless we actually need it. Just complete ioends that do not convert unwritten extents or need a size update from the end_io context. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-08-13 10:57:57.559366326 -0700 +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-08-13 10:57:57.979364052 -0700 @@ -150,6 +150,15 @@ xfs_ioend_new_eof( } /* + * Fast and loose check if this write could update the on-disk inode size. + */ +static inline bool xfs_ioend_is_append(struct xfs_ioend *ioend) +{ + return ioend->io_offset + ioend->io_size > + XFS_I(ioend->io_inode)->i_d.di_size; +} + +/* * Update on-disk file size now that data has been written to disk. The * current in-memory file size is i_size. If a write is beyond eof i_new_size * will be the intended file size until i_size is updated. If this write does @@ -186,6 +195,9 @@ xfs_setfilesize( /* * Schedule IO completion handling on the final put of an ioend. + * + * If there is no work to do we might as well call it a day and free the + * ioend right now. */ STATIC void xfs_finish_ioend( @@ -194,8 +206,10 @@ xfs_finish_ioend( if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ioend->io_remaining)) { if (ioend->io_type == IO_UNWRITTEN) queue_work(xfsconvertd_workqueue, &ioend->io_work); - else + else if (xfs_ioend_is_append(ioend)) queue_work(xfsdatad_workqueue, &ioend->io_work); + else + xfs_destroy_ioend(ioend); } } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs