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| author | Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com> | 2012-02-08 16:34:29 +0900 |
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| committer | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2012-02-29 21:53:46 +0100 |
| commit | ac1334bfdae33be17ae6ae641bbbd1e6a2f04005 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d7beae4467acc1ba18a90d18b07eab5563c14de /fs/ext3/inode.c | |
| parent | 053800a84b942511054b51299db4430b3d1b06bc (diff) | |
| download | linux-ac1334bfdae33be17ae6ae641bbbd1e6a2f04005.tar.bz2 | |
ext3: Update ctime in ext3_splice_branch() only when needed
Currently ext3 updates ctime in ext3_splice_branch() which is called whenever
we allocate one block. But it is wasteful because ext3 doesn't support
nanosecond timestamp. This leads to a performance loss.
Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext3/inode.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c index 2d0afeca0b47..6d3418662b54 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ static int ext3_splice_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, struct ext3_block_alloc_info *block_i; ext3_fsblk_t current_block; struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode); + struct timespec now; block_i = ei->i_block_alloc_info; /* @@ -795,9 +796,11 @@ static int ext3_splice_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, } /* We are done with atomic stuff, now do the rest of housekeeping */ - - inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; - ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); + now = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; + if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now) || !where->bh) { + inode->i_ctime = now; + ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); + } /* ext3_mark_inode_dirty already updated i_sync_tid */ atomic_set(&ei->i_datasync_tid, handle->h_transaction->t_tid); |