From 7fcbbaf18392f0b17c95e2f033c8ccf87eecde1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:54:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/filemap.c: avoid always dirtying mapping->flags on O_DIRECT In some testing I ran today (some fio jobs that spread over two nodes), we end up spending 40% of the time in filemap_check_errors(). That smells fishy. Looking further, this is basically what happens: blkdev_aio_read() generic_file_aio_read() filemap_write_and_wait_range() if (!mapping->nr_pages) filemap_check_errors() and filemap_check_errors() always attempts two test_and_clear_bit() on the mapping flags, thus dirtying it for every single invocation. The patch below tests each of these bits before clearing them, avoiding this issue. In my test case (4-socket box), performance went from 1.7M IOPS to 4.0M IOPS. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed