Re: [PATCH v3 16/19] fs: only set S_VERSION when updating times if necessary

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Dec 18 2017 - 12:25:51 EST


On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 17:07 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 18-12-17 10:11:53, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We only really need to update i_version if someone has queried for it
> > since we last incremented it. By doing that, we can avoid having to
> > update the inode if the times haven't changed.
> >
> > If the times have changed, then we go ahead and forcibly increment the
> > counter, under the assumption that we'll be going to the storage
> > anyway, and the increment itself is relatively cheap.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/inode.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> > index 03102d6ef044..83f6cfc3cde7 100644
> > --- a/fs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/inode.c
> > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> > #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> > #include <linux/list_lru.h>
> > #include <trace/events/writeback.h>
> > +#include <linux/iversion.h>
> > #include "internal.h"
> >
> > /*
> > @@ -1634,17 +1635,24 @@ static int relatime_need_update(const struct path *path, struct inode *inode,
> > int generic_update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags)
> > {
> > int iflags = I_DIRTY_TIME;
> > + bool dirty = false;
> >
> > - if (flags & S_ATIME)
> > + if (flags & S_ATIME) {
> > inode->i_atime = *time;
> > + dirty |= !(inode->i_sb->s_flags & SB_LAZYTIME);
> > + }
> > if (flags & S_VERSION)
> > - inode_inc_iversion(inode);
> > - if (flags & S_CTIME)
> > + dirty |= inode_maybe_inc_iversion(inode, dirty);
> > + if (flags & S_CTIME) {
> > inode->i_ctime = *time;
> > - if (flags & S_MTIME)
> > + dirty = true;
> > + }
> > + if (flags & S_MTIME) {
> > inode->i_mtime = *time;
> > + dirty = true;
> > + }
>
> The SB_LAZYTIME handling is wrong here. That option is not only about atime
> handling but rather about all inode time stamps. So you rather need
> something like:
>
> if (flags & (S_ATIME | S_CTIME | S_MTIME) &&
> !(inode->i_sb->s_flags & SB_LAZYTIME))
> dirty = true;
>
> Honza
>

Thanks. I misunderstood that. Will fix.

> >
> > - if (!(inode->i_sb->s_flags & SB_LAZYTIME) || (flags & S_VERSION))
> > + if (dirty)
> > iflags |= I_DIRTY_SYNC;
> > __mark_inode_dirty(inode, iflags);
> > return 0;
> > @@ -1863,7 +1871,7 @@ int file_update_time(struct file *file)
> > if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now))
> > sync_it |= S_CTIME;
> >
> > - if (IS_I_VERSION(inode))
> > + if (IS_I_VERSION(inode) && inode_iversion_need_inc(inode))
> > sync_it |= S_VERSION;
> >
> > if (!sync_it)
> > --
> > 2.14.3
> >

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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>