From 7716506adac4664793a9d6d3dfa31ffddfa98714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 18:32:45 -0700 Subject: mm: introduce and use mapping_empty() Patch series "Remove nrexceptional tracking", v2. We actually use nrexceptional for very little these days. It's a minor pain to keep in sync with nrpages, but the pain becomes much bigger with the THP patches because we don't know how many indices a shadow entry occupies. It's easier to just remove it than keep it accurate. Also, we save 8 bytes per inode which is nothing to sneeze at; on my laptop, it would improve shmem_inode_cache from 22 to 23 objects per 16kB, and inode_cache from 26 to 27 objects. Combined, that saves a megabyte of memory from a combined usage of 25MB for both caches. Unfortunately, ext4 doesn't cross a magic boundary, so it doesn't save any memory for ext4. This patch (of 4): Instead of checking the two counters (nrpages and nrexceptional), we can just check whether i_pages is empty. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Tested-by: Vishal Verma Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/dax.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/dax.c') diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index b3d27fdc6775..999f3f22aea3 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ int dax_writeback_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, if (WARN_ON_ONCE(inode->i_blkbits != PAGE_SHIFT)) return -EIO; - if (!mapping->nrexceptional || wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) + if (mapping_empty(mapping) || wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) return 0; trace_dax_writeback_range(inode, xas.xa_index, end_index); -- cgit v1.2.3