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authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>2011-10-18 10:55:51 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2011-10-18 10:55:51 -0400
commit1bce63d1a2a2c8929442b79acd4eab2e3db10a0b (patch)
tree2dfdd7f28440bca2ba5932c708f541c8a6a21d06 /fs
parentf6f96fdb8c2779f9bd8ed7b0b08405b4439c982b (diff)
ext4: add block plug for .writepages
Add block plug for ext4 .writepages. Though ext4 .writepages already handles request merge very well, block plug is still helpful to reduce block lock contention. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 4863238c3754..081bb25a9ad3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2160,6 +2160,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(mapping->host->i_sb);
pgoff_t done_index = 0;
pgoff_t end;
+ struct blk_plug plug;
trace_ext4_da_writepages(inode, wbc);
@@ -2238,6 +2239,7 @@ retry:
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
+ blk_start_plug(&plug);
while (!ret && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
/*
@@ -2302,6 +2304,7 @@ retry:
*/
break;
}
+ blk_finish_plug(&plug);
if (!io_done && !cycled) {
cycled = 1;
index = 0;