ext4: don't lock the next page in write_cache_pages if not needed
If we have accumulated a contiguous region of memory to be written
out, and the next page can added to this region, don't bother locking
(and then unlocking the page) before writing out the memory. In the
unlikely event that the next page was being written back by some other
CPU, we can also skip waiting that page to finish writeback.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 617c9cb..c2e6af3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2761,6 +2761,16 @@
*done_index = page->index + 1;
+ /*
+ * If we can't merge this page, and we have
+ * accumulated an contiguous region, write it
+ */
+ if ((mpd->next_page != page->index) &&
+ (mpd->next_page != mpd->first_page)) {
+ mpage_da_map_and_submit(mpd);
+ goto ret_extent_tail;
+ }
+
lock_page(page);
/*
@@ -2784,25 +2794,8 @@
BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
- /*
- * Can we merge this page to current extent?
- */
if (mpd->next_page != page->index) {
/*
- * Nope, we can't. So, we map
- * non-allocated blocks and start IO
- * on them
- */
- if (mpd->next_page != mpd->first_page) {
- mpage_da_map_and_submit(mpd);
- /*
- * skip rest of the page in the page_vec
- */
- unlock_page(page);
- goto ret_extent_tail;
- }
-
- /*
* Start next extent of pages and blocks
*/
mpd->first_page = page->index;