linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] mm/filemap: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no dirty pages

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:36:08 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/filemap: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no
 dirty pages

Functions like filemap_write_and_wait_range() should do nothing if inode
has no dirty pages or pages currently under writeback. But they anyway
construct struct writeback_control and this does some atomic operations
if CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK=y - on fast path it locks inode->i_lock and
updates state of writeback ownership, on slow path might be more work.
Current this path is safely avoided only when inode mapping has no pages.

For example generic_file_read_iter() calls filemap_write_and_wait_range()
at each O_DIRECT read - pretty hot path.

This patch skips starting new writeback if mapping has no dirty tags set.
If writeback is already in progress filemap_write_and_wait_range() will
wait for it.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 mm/filemap.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index d0cf700bf201..d9572593e5c7 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ int __filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start,
 		.range_end = end,
 	};

-	if (!mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping))
+	if (!mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping) ||
+	    !mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
 		return 0;

 	wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode(&wbc, mapping->host);