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>

diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index 8d723c9..469491e 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
                break;
        case POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED:
                if (!bdi_write_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info))
-                       filemap_flush(mapping);
+                       __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, endbyte,
+                                                  WB_SYNC_NONE);
 
                /* First and last FULL page! */
                start_index = (offset+(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;