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ext4: fix ext4_dax_read/write inode locking sequence for IOCB_NOWAIT

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Apparently our current rwsem code doesn't like doing the trylock, then
lock for real scheme.  So change our dax read/write methods to just do the
trylock for the RWF_NOWAIT case.
This seems to fix AIM7 regression in some scalable filesystems upto ~25%
in some cases. Claimed in commit 942491c9e6 ("xfs: fix AIM7 regression")

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
Tested-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212055557.11151-2-riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Ritesh Harjani 2019-12-12 11:25:55 +05:30 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 46cf053efe
commit f629afe336
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -88,9 +88,10 @@ static ssize_t ext4_dax_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
ssize_t ret;
if (!inode_trylock_shared(inode)) {
if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
if (!inode_trylock_shared(inode))
return -EAGAIN;
} else {
inode_lock_shared(inode);
}
/*
@ -487,9 +488,10 @@ ext4_dax_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
bool extend = false;
struct inode *inode = file_inode(iocb->ki_filp);
if (!inode_trylock(inode)) {
if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT)
if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) {
if (!inode_trylock(inode))
return -EAGAIN;
} else {
inode_lock(inode);
}