[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 1/2] iomap: don't mark the inode dirty in iomap_write_end

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Marking the inode dirty for each page copied into the page cache can be
very inefficient for file systems that use the VFS dirty inode tracking,
and is completely pointless for those that don't use the VFS dirty inode
tracking.  So instead, only set an iomap flag when changing the in-core
inode size, and open code the rest of __generic_write_end.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba at redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/bmap.c        |  2 ++
 fs/iomap.c            | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/iomap.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
index 93ea1d529aa3..f4b895fc632d 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
@@ -1182,6 +1182,8 @@ static int gfs2_iomap_end(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length,
 
 	if (ip->i_qadata && ip->i_qadata->qa_qd_num)
 		gfs2_quota_unlock(ip);
+	if (iomap->flags & IOMAP_F_SIZE_CHANGED)
+		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 	gfs2_write_unlock(inode);
 
 out:
diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c
index 12654c2e78f8..97569064faaa 100644
--- a/fs/iomap.c
+++ b/fs/iomap.c
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ iomap_write_end(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
 		unsigned copied, struct page *page, struct iomap *iomap)
 {
 	const struct iomap_page_ops *page_ops = iomap->page_ops;
+	loff_t old_size = inode->i_size;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (iomap->type == IOMAP_INLINE) {
@@ -788,7 +789,19 @@ iomap_write_end(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, unsigned len,
 		ret = __iomap_write_end(inode, pos, len, copied, page, iomap);
 	}
 
-	__generic_write_end(inode, pos, ret, page);
+	/*
+	 * Update the in-memory inode size after copying the data into the page
+	 * cache.  It's up to the file system to write the updated size to disk,
+	 * preferably after I/O completion so that no stale data is exposed.
+	 */
+	if (pos + ret > old_size) {
+		i_size_write(inode, pos + ret);
+		iomap->flags |= IOMAP_F_SIZE_CHANGED;
+	}
+	unlock_page(page);
+
+	if (old_size < pos)
+		pagecache_isize_extended(inode, old_size, pos);
 	if (page_ops && page_ops->page_done)
 		page_ops->page_done(inode, pos, copied, page, iomap);
 	put_page(page);
diff --git a/include/linux/iomap.h b/include/linux/iomap.h
index 2103b94cb1bf..1df9ea187a9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/iomap.h
+++ b/include/linux/iomap.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct vm_fault;
 #define IOMAP_F_NEW		0x01	/* blocks have been newly allocated */
 #define IOMAP_F_DIRTY		0x02	/* uncommitted metadata */
 #define IOMAP_F_BUFFER_HEAD	0x04	/* file system requires buffer heads */
+#define IOMAP_F_SIZE_CHANGED	0x08	/* file size has changed */
 
 /*
  * Flags that only need to be reported for IOMAP_REPORT requests:
-- 
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