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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-07-30 06:03:28 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-31 16:28:38 -0400
commit0e1dfc66b6ec94984a4778132147a8aa36461d58 (patch)
tree225a8e044e021a5a337704bc1f5ea862a5f75375 /fs
parenta268cefebceeb2046dfdfa301f041c2468536852 (diff)
[PATCH] invalidate_bdev() speedup
We can immediately bail 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@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 3660dcb97591..71649ef9b658 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -470,13 +470,18 @@ out:
470 pass does the actual I/O. */ 470 pass does the actual I/O. */
471void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers) 471void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers)
472{ 472{
473 struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
474
475 if (mapping->nrpages == 0)
476 return;
477
473 invalidate_bh_lrus(); 478 invalidate_bh_lrus();
474 /* 479 /*
475 * FIXME: what about destroy_dirty_buffers? 480 * FIXME: what about destroy_dirty_buffers?
476 * We really want to use invalidate_inode_pages2() for 481 * We really want to use invalidate_inode_pages2() for
477 * that, but not until that's cleaned up. 482 * that, but not until that's cleaned up.
478 */ 483 */
479 invalidate_inode_pages(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping); 484 invalidate_inode_pages(mapping);
480} 485}
481 486
482/* 487/*