fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED
authorShawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:07:35 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:30:43 +0000 (16:30 -0800)
commitad8a1b558e6c76fb53901956d3c8f29b82a4ccfa
tree48eae18bf9392cf373adb296301ccf02301da3f1
parentfc8d8620d39dbbaf412b1b9247d77d196d92adb9
fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED

Previously POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED would start writeback for the entire file
when the bdi was not write congested.  This negatively impacts performance
if the file contains dirty pages outside of the requested range.  This
change uses __filemap_fdatawrite_range() to only initiate writeback for
the requested range.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/fadvise.c