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xfs: dont serialise direct IO reads on page cache
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:13:40 +0000 (13:13 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:10:05 +0000 (09:10 -0800)
commit16ba92e591d31d3213956e581867f46892648038
tree60eb2e93d8edbdc1397ad805e47a17f237e10199
parentafd717d6cd334fc89f3ac938e19aade2f939b629
xfs: dont serialise direct IO reads on page cache

commit 0c38a2512df272b14ef4238b476a2e4f70da1479 upstream.

There is no need to grab the i_mutex of the IO lock in exclusive
mode if we don't need to invalidate the page cache. Taking these
locks on every direct IO effective serialises them as taking the IO
lock in exclusive mode has to wait for all shared holders to drop
the lock. That only happens when IO is complete, so effective it
prevents dispatch of concurrent direct IO reads to the same inode.

Fix this by taking the IO lock shared to check the page cache state,
and only then drop it and take the IO lock exclusively if there is
work to be done. Hence for the normal direct IO case, no exclusive
locking will occur.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c