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Message-ID: <552A839C.4070101@plexistor.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:39:24 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>,
	Zhao Lei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
	'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@....de>
CC:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 'Jan Kara' <jack@...e.cz>,
	'Jens Axboe' <axboe@...com>,
	'LKML' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression caused by using node_to_bdi()

On 04/12/2015 02:33 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 04/10/2015 02:25 PM, Zhao Lei wrote:
>> Hi, Christoph Hellwig
>>
<>
>>
>> Is there some way to speed up it(inline, or some access some variant
>> in struct directly, ...)?
>>
> 
> Christoph hi
> 
> Both node_to_bdi() and sb_is_blkdev_sb() 
>  (and I_BDEV() && blk_get_backing_dev_info())
> Are an exported function calls.
> 
> Can we not make blockdev_superblock->s_bdi == NULL,
> and then optimize-out the call to sb_is_blkdev_sb() to only
> that case. Something like:
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index 32a8bbd..e0375e1 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ int writeback_in_progress(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_in_progress);
>  
> -struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode)
> +struct backing_dev_info *__inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb;
>  
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode)
>  #endif
>  	return sb->s_bdi;
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inode_to_bdi);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__inode_to_bdi);
>  
>  static inline struct inode *wb_inode(struct list_head *head)
>  {
> diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> index aff923a..7d172f5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> @@ -107,7 +107,16 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
>  #endif
>  };
>  
> -struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode);
> +struct backing_dev_info *__inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode);
> +
> +static inline
> +struct backing_dev_info *inode_to_bdi(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> +	if (!inode || !inode->i_sb)
> +		return __inode_to_bdi(inode);
> +
> +	return inode->i_sb->s_bdi;
> +}
>  

This patch actually boots. Lei could you please test to see
if it fixes your slowness?

Thanks
Boaz

>  int __must_check bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
>  void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
> 

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