When flushing comes from background, if there is no dirty page in the
mapping of inode, we'd better to skip seeking dirty page from mapping
for writebacking.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
return 0;
+ /* skip writing if there is no dirty page in this inode */
+ if (!get_dirty_pages(inode) && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
+ return 0;
+
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE &&
get_dirty_pages(inode) < nr_pages_to_skip(sbi, DATA) &&
available_free_memory(sbi, DIRTY_DENTS))