From: Andrew Morton Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] invalidate_bdev() speedup X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc4~130 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e1dfc66b6ec94984a4778132147a8aa36461d58;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] invalidate_bdev() speedup We can immediately bail from invalidate_bdev() if the blockdev has no pagecache. This solves the huge IPI storms which hald is causing on the big ia64 machines when it polls CDROM drives. Acked-by: Jes Sorensen Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 3660dcb9759..71649ef9b65 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -470,13 +470,18 @@ out: pass does the actual I/O. */ void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers) { + struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping; + + if (mapping->nrpages == 0) + return; + invalidate_bh_lrus(); /* * FIXME: what about destroy_dirty_buffers? * We really want to use invalidate_inode_pages2() for * that, but not until that's cleaned up. */ - invalidate_inode_pages(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping); + invalidate_inode_pages(mapping); } /*