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[2/3] xfs: don't start out with the exclusive ilock for direct I/O

Message ID 20180228174552.31919-3-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Christoph Hellwig Feb. 28, 2018, 5:45 p.m. UTC
There is no reason to take the ilock exclusively at the start of
xfs_file_iomap_begin for direct I/O, given that it will be demoted
just before calling xfs_iomap_write_direct anyway.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Dave Chinner March 1, 2018, 10:02 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 09:45:51AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> There is no reason to take the ilock exclusively at the start of
> xfs_file_iomap_begin for direct I/O, given that it will be demoted
> just before calling xfs_iomap_write_direct anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Seems to work fine, and reverts us back to the per-iomap behaviour.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
index 4e771e0f1170..ee01859b77a5 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
@@ -965,13 +965,11 @@  static inline bool needs_cow_for_zeroing(struct xfs_bmbt_irec *imap, int nimaps)
 static inline bool need_excl_ilock(struct xfs_inode *ip, unsigned flags)
 {
 	/*
-	 * COW writes will allocate delalloc space, so we need to make sure
-	 * to take the lock exclusively here.
+	 * COW writes may allocate delalloc space or convert unwritten COW
+	 * extents, so we need to make sure to take the lock exclusively here.
 	 */
 	if (xfs_is_reflink_inode(ip) && (flags & (IOMAP_WRITE | IOMAP_ZERO)))
 		return true;
-	if ((flags & IOMAP_DIRECT) && (flags & IOMAP_WRITE))
-		return true;
 	return false;
 }