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authorRitesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>2019-12-12 08:55:55 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-02-24 10:36:24 +0300
commit4125714ce1d63352227249ac92ae1d04587e1ad7 (patch)
tree17b1b48fadae0a74c3187196b26f30e5e673590e /fs
parent348a7ccdb9f0d83e665dccc26e7a7ae5d3638736 (diff)
downloadlinux-4125714ce1d63352227249ac92ae1d04587e1ad7.tar.xz
ext4: fix ext4_dax_read/write inode locking sequence for IOCB_NOWAIT
[ Upstream commit f629afe3369e9885fd6e9cc7a4f514b6a65cf9e9 ] Apparently our current rwsem code doesn't like doing the trylock, then lock for real scheme. So change our dax read/write methods to just do the trylock for the RWF_NOWAIT case. This seems to fix AIM7 regression in some scalable filesystems upto ~25% in some cases. Claimed in commit 942491c9e6d6 ("xfs: fix AIM7 regression") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org> Tested-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212055557.11151-2-riteshh@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/file.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 8d2bbcc2d813..fd7ce3573a00 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dax_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
ssize_t ret;
- if (!inode_trylock_shared(inode)) {
- if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
+ if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
+ if (!inode_trylock_shared(inode))
return -EAGAIN;
+ } else {
inode_lock_shared(inode);
}
/*
@@ -190,9 +191,10 @@ ext4_dax_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
ssize_t ret;
- if (!inode_trylock(inode)) {
- if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
+ if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
+ if (!inode_trylock(inode))
return -EAGAIN;
+ } else {
inode_lock(inode);
}
ret = ext4_write_checks(iocb, from);