ext4: don't take the i_mutex lock when doing DIO overwrites
authorZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:19:31 +0000 (20:19 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:19:31 +0000 (20:19 -0400)
commit4bd809dbbf177ad0c450d702466b1da63e1b4b7e
tree80493da203ac42a448489bc8e589207b9f735c2b
parent729f52c6be51013c9268e5fc85acbc1091286fdb
ext4: don't take the i_mutex lock when doing DIO overwrites

Aligned and overwrite direct I/O can be parallelized.  In
ext4_file_dio_write, we first check whether these conditions are
satisfied or not.  If so, we take i_data_sem and release i_mutex lock
directly.  Meanwhile iocb->private is set to indicate that this is a
dio overwrite, and it will be handled in ext4_ext_direct_IO.

[ Added fix from Dan Carpenter to fix locking bug on the error path. ]

CC: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
CC: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
CC: Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
fs/ext4/file.c
fs/ext4/inode.c