block: remove plugging at buffered write time

PATCH Superseded Wu Fengguang 1 participant 1 message Feb 10, 2012

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Wu Fengguang

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2012-02-10 13:15 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH v2 1/1 block: remove plugging at buffered write time

Buffered write(2) is not directly tied to IO, so it's not suitable to handle plug in generic_file_aio_write().

Also moves unplugging for direct I/O from around ->direct_IO() down to do_blockdev_direct_IO().

Note that plugging for O_SYNC writes is also removed. The user may pass arbitrary @size arguments, which may be much larger than the preferable I/O size, or may cross extent/device boundaries. Let the lower layers handle the plugging. The plugging code here actually turns them into no-ops.

CC Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

CC Li Shaohua <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>

---
 fs/direct-io.c |    5 +++++
 fs/sync.c      |   11 ++++++++++-
 mm/filemap.c   |    7 -------
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

mm/filemap.c +0 -7

@@ -1421,12 +1421,8 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb
 			retval = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, pos,
 					pos + iov_length(iov, nr_segs) - 1);
 			if (!retval) {
-				struct blk_plug plug;
-
-				blk_start_plug(&plug);
 				retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(READ, iocb,
 							iov, pos, nr_segs);
-				blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 			}
 			if (retval > 0) {
 				*ppos = pos + retval;

@@ -2610,13 +2606,11 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
-	struct blk_plug plug;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);

@@ -2627,7 +2621,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
 		if (err < 0 && ret > 0)
 			ret = err;
 	}
-	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write);

fs/direct-io.c +5 -0

@@ -1106,6 +1106,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kio
 	unsigned long user_addr;
 	size_t bytes;
 	struct buffer_head map_bh = { 0, };
+	struct blk_plug plug;
 
 	if (rw & WRITE)
 		rw = WRITE_ODIRECT;

@@ -1221,6 +1222,8 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kio
 				PAGE_SIZE - user_addr / PAGE_SIZE);
 	}
 
+	blk_start_plug(&plug);
+
 	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
 		user_addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;
 		sdio.size += bytes = iov[seg].iov_len;

@@ -1279,6 +1282,8 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kio
 	if (sdio.bio)
 		dio_bio_submit(dio, &sdio);
 
+	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+
 	/*
 	 * It is possible that, we return short IO due to end of file.
 	 * In that case, we need to release all the pages we got hold on.