From 5ef143d96cf46e05a1bb7af5b2d4c3f6533c8b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suleiman Souhlal Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:03:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] vfs: Revert spurious fix to spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb commit 5b55d708335a9e3e4f61f2dadf7511502205ccd1 upstream. Revert commit 62a3ddef6181 ("vfs: fix spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb"). This commit doesn't look right: since we are looking at the tail of the list (sb->s_inode_lru.prev) if we want to skip an inode, we should put it back at the head of the list instead of the tail, otherwise we will keep spinning on it. Discovered when investigating why prune_icache_sb came top in perf reports of a swapping load. Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index ee4e66b998f4..e2d3633a9c05 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan) * inode to the back of the list so we don't spin on it. */ if (!spin_trylock(&inode->i_lock)) { - list_move_tail(&inode->i_lru, &sb->s_inode_lru); + list_move(&inode->i_lru, &sb->s_inode_lru); continue; } -- 2.39.2