[076/262] Revert "NFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() calls write_inode() when syncing"

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Nov 09 2011 - 22:23:47 EST


3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 59b7c05fffba030e5d9e72324691e2f99aa69b79 upstream.

This reverts commit b80c3cb628f0ebc241b02e38dd028969fb8026a2.

The reverted commit was rendered obsolete by a VFS fix: commit
5547e8aac6f71505d621a612de2fca0dd988b439 (writeback: Update dirty flags in
two steps). We now no longer need to worry about writeback_single_inode()
missing our marking the inode for COMMIT in 'do_writepages()' call.

Reverting this patch, fixes a performance regression in which the inode
would continuously get queued to the dirty list, causing the writeback
code to unnecessarily try to send a COMMIT.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/nfs/write.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -428,7 +428,6 @@ static void
nfs_mark_request_dirty(struct nfs_page *req)
{
__set_page_dirty_nobuffers(req->wb_page);
- __mark_inode_dirty(req->wb_page->mapping->host, I_DIRTY_DATASYNC);
}

#if defined(CONFIG_NFS_V3) || defined(CONFIG_NFS_V4)
@@ -762,6 +761,8 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st
status = nfs_writepage_setup(ctx, page, offset, count);
if (status < 0)
nfs_set_pageerror(page);
+ else
+ __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);

dprintk("NFS: nfs_updatepage returns %d (isize %lld)\n",
status, (long long)i_size_read(inode));


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/