From f8806c843f88a6b7d657cf24c3682bc2efda6fdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:26:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Fix writeback performance issue on cache invalidation If a cache invalidation is triggered, and we happen to have a lot of writebacks cached at the time, then the call to invalidate_inode_pages2() will end up calling ->launder_page() on each and every dirty page in order to sync its contents to disk, thus defeating write coalescing. The following patch ensures that we try to sync the inode to disk before calling invalidate_inode_pages2() so that we do the writeback as efficiently as possible. Reported-by: William Dauchy Reported-by: Pascal Bouchareine Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Tested-by: William Dauchy Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index af6e806044d7..3ea4f641effc 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -963,9 +963,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_revalidate_inode); static int nfs_invalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping) { struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode); - + int ret; + if (mapping->nrpages != 0) { - int ret = invalidate_inode_pages2(mapping); + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { + ret = nfs_sync_mapping(mapping); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + } + ret = invalidate_inode_pages2(mapping); if (ret < 0) return ret; } -- GitLab