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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 02:57:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120515065718.GA7373@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1205131347120.1547@eggly.anvils>

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:50:06PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> When truncating a file, we unmap pages from userspace first, as that's
> usually more efficient than relying, page by page, on the fallback in
> truncate_inode_page() - particularly if the file is mapped many times.
> 
> Do the same when punching a hole: 3.4 added truncate_pagecache_range()
> to do the unmap and trunc, so use it in xfs_flushinval_pages(), instead
> of calling truncate_inode_pages_range() directly.

This change looks fine.

> Should xfs_tosspages() be using it too?  I don't know: left unchanged.

I'll look at it.  I've been planning to simplify and/or kill the
xfs_fs_subr.c wrappers which tend to confuse the code for a while now,
and deciding what exactly to do should be a fallout from that.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-13 20:50 [PATCH 1/2] xfs: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range Hugh Dickins
2012-05-13 20:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: hole-punch retaining cache beyond Hugh Dickins
2012-05-15  6:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-05-15  6:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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