linux-kernel - Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

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Date:	Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:58:02 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Valerie Henson <val_henson@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	mark.fasheh@...cle.com, steve@...gwyn.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, viro@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:36:20 -0800 Valerie Henson <val_henson@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> Add "relatime" (relative atime) support.  Relative atime only updates
> the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime.
> Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know
> when a file has been read since it was last modified.

That seems like a good idea.

I found touch_atime() to be rather putrid, so I hacked it around a bit.  The
end result:

void touch_atime(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry)
{
	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
	struct timespec now;

	if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
		return;
	if (inode->i_flags & S_NOATIME)
		return;
	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NOATIME)
		return;
	if ((inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
		return;

	/*
	 * We may have a NULL vfsmount when coming from NFSD
	 */
	if (mnt) {
		if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOATIME)
			return;
		if ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
			return;

		if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_RELATIME) {
			/*
			 * With relative atime, only update atime if the
			 * previous atime is earlier than either the ctime or
			 * mtime.
			 */
			if (timespec_compare(&inode->i_mtime,
						&inode->i_atime) < 0 &&
			    timespec_compare(&inode->i_ctime,
						&inode->i_atime) < 0)
				return;
		}
	}

	now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
	if (timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now))
		return;

	inode->i_atime = now;
	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
}

Does it still look right?

Note the reordering to avoid the current_fs_time() call if poss.


That's the easy part.   How are we going to get mount(8) patched?

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