[patch 12/23] invalidate_bdev() speedup

[Greg KH]

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

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>

We can immediately bale from invalidate_bdev() if the blockdev has no
pagecache.

This solves the huge IPI storms which hald is causing on the big ia64
machines when it polls CDROM drives.

Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 fs/buffer.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.17.7.orig/fs/buffer.c
+++ linux-2.6.17.7/fs/buffer.c
@@ -473,13 +473,18 @@ out:
    pass does the actual I/O. */
 void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers)
 {
+	struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
+
+	if (mapping->nrpages == 0)
+		return;
+
 	invalidate_bh_lrus();
 	/*
 	 * FIXME: what about destroy_dirty_buffers?
 	 * We really want to use invalidate_inode_pages2() for
 	 * that, but not until that's cleaned up.
 	 */
-	invalidate_inode_pages(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping);
+	invalidate_inode_pages(mapping);
 }
 
 /*

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