ext4: punch hole optimizations: skip un-needed extent lookup
authorAllison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:17:02 +0000 (23:17 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:17:02 +0000 (23:17 -0400)
This patch optimizes the punch hole operation by skipping the
tree walking code that is used by truncate.  Since punch hole
is done through map blocks, the path to the extent is already
known in this function, so we do not need to look it up again.

Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/extents.c

index f1c538e5055c8ee968a253d9490070b95a78a155..06b30b61205fd3e83fe82c07acf2c51a5fb5611a 100644 (file)
@@ -3461,8 +3461,27 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 
                        ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(ex);
 
-                       err = ext4_ext_remove_space(inode, map->m_lblk,
-                               map->m_lblk + punched_out);
+                       ext4_ext_invalidate_cache(inode);
+
+                       err = ext4_ext_rm_leaf(handle, inode, path,
+                               map->m_lblk, map->m_lblk + punched_out);
+
+                       if (!err && path->p_hdr->eh_entries == 0) {
+                               /*
+                                * Punch hole freed all of this sub tree,
+                                * so we need to correct eh_depth
+                                */
+                               err = ext4_ext_get_access(handle, inode, path);
+                               if (err == 0) {
+                                       ext_inode_hdr(inode)->eh_depth = 0;
+                                       ext_inode_hdr(inode)->eh_max =
+                                       cpu_to_le16(ext4_ext_space_root(
+                                               inode, 0));
+
+                                       err = ext4_ext_dirty(
+                                               handle, inode, path);
+                               }
+                       }
 
                        goto out2;
                }