From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: gregkh@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 8/8] ext4: avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode()
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:46:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191125144603.GG3296@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191125134835.GC5861@sasha-vm>
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:52:53AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 3abb1a0fc2871f2db52199e1748a1d48a54a3427 ]
> >
> > 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.
>
> This reads to me like an optimization?
That's okay. Just don't apply anything that isn't suitable.
I'll try to omit such cases in the future.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-22 10:52 [PATCH 4.9 1/8] ARM: 8904/1: skip nomap memblocks while finding the lowmem/highmem boundary Lee Jones
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 2/8] can: dev: can_dellink(): remove return at end of void function Lee Jones
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 3/8] arm64: fix for bad_mode() handler to always result in panic Lee Jones
2019-11-25 13:47 ` Sasha Levin
2019-11-25 14:44 ` Lee Jones
2019-11-25 17:41 ` Greg KH
2019-11-25 18:25 ` Lee Jones
2019-11-26 13:49 ` Lee Jones
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 4/8] cpufreq: Skip cpufreq resume if it's not suspended Lee Jones
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 5/8] bcache: silence static checker warning Lee Jones
2019-11-25 13:47 ` Sasha Levin
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 6/8] dm: use blk_set_queue_dying() in __dm_destroy() Lee Jones
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 7/8] ocfs2: remove ocfs2_is_o2cb_active() Lee Jones
2019-11-22 10:52 ` [PATCH 4.9 8/8] ext4: avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode() Lee Jones
2019-11-25 13:48 ` Sasha Levin
2019-11-25 14:46 ` Lee Jones [this message]
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