From 3abb1a0fc2871f2db52199e1748a1d48a54a3427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:49:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: avoid unnecessary stalls in ext4_evict_inode() These days inode reclaim calls evict_inode() only when it has no pages in the mapping. In that case it is not necessary to wait for transaction commit in ext4_evict_inode() as there can be no pages waiting to be committed. So avoid unnecessary transaction waiting in that case. We still have to keep the check for the case where ext4_evict_inode() gets called from other paths (e.g. umount) where inode still can have some page cache pages. Reported-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index d9733aa955e9..754c2190af31 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) */ if (inode->i_ino != EXT4_JOURNAL_INO && ext4_should_journal_data(inode) && - (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) { + (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) && + inode->i_data.nrpages) { journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; tid_t commit_tid = EXT4_I(inode)->i_datasync_tid; -- 2.20.1