Jan Kara
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Commite64855c6cf("fs: Add helper to clean bdev aliases under a bh and use it") added a wrapper for clean_bdev_aliases() that invalidates bdev aliases underlying a single buffer head. However this has caused a performance regression for bonnie++ benchmark on ext4 filesystem when delayed allocation is turned off (ext3 mode) - average of 3 runs: Hmean SeqOut Char 164787.55 ( 0.00%) 107189.06 (-34.95%) Hmean SeqOut Block 219883.89 ( 0.00%) 168870.32 (-23.20%) The reason for this regression is that clean_bdev_aliases() is slower when called for a single block because pagevec_lookup() it uses will end up iterating through the radix tree until it finds a page (which may take a while) but we are only interested whether there's a page at a particular index. Fix the problem by using pagevec_lookup_range() instead which avoids the needless iteration. Fixes:e64855c6cf("fs: Add helper to clean bdev aliases under a bh and use it") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726114704.7626-5-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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