[PATCH v3 3/4] fat: mark superblock as dirty less often

[Artem Bityutskiy]

From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch is a preparation for further changes. It touches few functions
in fatent.c and prevents them from marking the superblock as dirty
unnecessarily often. Namely, instead of marking it as dirty in the internal
tight loops - do it only once at the end of the functions. And instead of
marking it as dirty while holding the FAT table lock, do it outside the lock.

The reason for this patch is that marking the superblock as dirty will soon
become a little bit heavier operation, so it is cleaner to do this only when it
is necessary.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/fat/fatent.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/fatent.c b/fs/fat/fatent.c
index e49d274..8181548 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fatent.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fatent.c
@@ -503,7 +503,6 @@ int fat_alloc_clusters(struct inode *inode, int *cluster, int nr_cluster)
 				sbi->prev_free = entry;
 				if (sbi->free_clusters != -1)
 					sbi->free_clusters--;
-				mark_fsinfo_dirty(sb);
 
 				cluster[idx_clus] = entry;
 				idx_clus++;
@@ -525,11 +524,11 @@ int fat_alloc_clusters(struct inode *inode, int *cluster, int nr_cluster)
 	/* Couldn't allocate the free entries */
 	sbi->free_clusters = 0;
 	sbi->free_clus_valid = 1;
-	mark_fsinfo_dirty(sb);
 	err = -ENOSPC;
 
 out:
 	unlock_fat(sbi);
+	mark_fsinfo_dirty(sb);
 	fatent_brelse(&fatent);
 	if (!err) {
 		if (inode_needs_sync(inode))
@@ -554,7 +553,7 @@ int fat_free_clusters(struct inode *inode, int cluster)
 	struct fat_entry fatent;
 	struct buffer_head *bhs[MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE];
 	int i, err, nr_bhs;
-	int first_cl = cluster;
+	int first_cl = cluster, dirty_fsinfo = 0;
 
 	nr_bhs = 0;
 	fatent_init(&fatent);
@@ -592,7 +591,7 @@ int fat_free_clusters(struct inode *inode, int cluster)
 		ops->ent_put(&fatent, FAT_ENT_FREE);
 		if (sbi->free_clusters != -1) {
 			sbi->free_clusters++;
-			mark_fsinfo_dirty(sb);
+			dirty_fsinfo = 1;
 		}
 
 		if (nr_bhs + fatent.nr_bhs > MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE) {
@@ -622,6 +621,8 @@ error:
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_bhs; i++)
 		brelse(bhs[i]);
 	unlock_fat(sbi);
+	if (dirty_fsinfo)
+		mark_fsinfo_dirty(sb);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
1.7.7.6

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