We don't have to start a transaction in writepage() when all the blocks
are a properly allocated. Even in ordered mode either the data has been
written via write() and they are thus already added to transaction's list
or the data was written via mmap and then it's random in which transaction
they get written anyway.
This should help VM to pageout dirty memory without blocking on transaction
commits.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+static int buffer_unmapped(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+ return !buffer_mapped(bh);
+}
/*
* Note that we always start a transaction even if we're not journalling
* data. This is to preserve ordering: any hole instantiation within
/*
* Note that we always start a transaction even if we're not journalling
* data. This is to preserve ordering: any hole instantiation within
if (ext3_journal_current_handle())
goto out_fail;
if (ext3_journal_current_handle())
goto out_fail;
+ if (!page_has_buffers(page)) {
+ create_empty_buffers(page, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize,
+ (1 << BH_Dirty)|(1 << BH_Uptodate));
+ } else if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page), 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, NULL, buffer_unmapped)) {
+ /* Provide NULL instead of get_block so that we catch bugs if buffers weren't really mapped */
+ return block_write_full_page(page, NULL, wbc);
+ }
+ page_bufs = page_buffers(page);
+
handle = ext3_journal_start(inode, ext3_writepage_trans_blocks(inode));
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
handle = ext3_journal_start(inode, ext3_writepage_trans_blocks(inode));
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
- if (!page_has_buffers(page)) {
- create_empty_buffers(page, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize,
- (1 << BH_Dirty)|(1 << BH_Uptodate));
- }
- page_bufs = page_buffers(page);
walk_page_buffers(handle, page_bufs, 0,
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, NULL, bget_one);
walk_page_buffers(handle, page_bufs, 0,
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, NULL, bget_one);