[XFS] Don't wait for pending I/Os when purging blocks beyond eof.

On last close of a file we purge blocks beyond eof. The same code is used
when we truncate the file size down. In this case we need to wait for any
pending I/Os for dirty pages beyond the new eof. For the last close case
we are not changing the file size and therefore do not need to wait for
any I/Os to complete. This fixes a performance bottleneck where writes
into the page cache and cache flushes can become mutually exclusive.

SGI-PV: 964002
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30220a

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Leckie <pleckie@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index abf509a88915..344948082819 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -1459,8 +1459,10 @@ xfs_itruncate_start(
         mp = ip->i_mount;
         vp = XFS_ITOV(ip);
 
-        vn_iowait(ip);  /* wait for the completion of any pending DIOs */
-        
+        /* wait for the completion of any pending DIOs */
+        if (new_size < ip->i_size)
+                vn_iowait(ip);
+
         /*
          * Call toss_pages or flushinval_pages to get rid of pages
          * overlapping the region being removed.  We have to use