Re: [PATCH] XFS: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "xfs_qm_dqrele"

From	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] XFS: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "xfs_qm_dqrele"
Date	2015-06-29 23:50 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:15:31AM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:05:41 +0200
> 
> The xfs_qm_dqrele() function tests whether its argument is NULL and
> then returns immediately.

True.

> Thus the test around the call is not needed.

But wrong.

xfs_dqrele_inode() gets called on every inode in the inode cache,
and this change results in a cacheline in every inode being dirtied
even if they don't have dquots attached. Given the inode cache can
hold tens to hundreds of millions of inodes on large machines, we
don't want to dirty any cachelines we don't need to while walking
the inode cache and releasing dquots...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Re: [PATCH] XFS: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call  "xfs_qm_dqrele" Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-06-29 23:50 +0200
  Re: XFS: Fine-tuning for checks before the function call "xfs_qm_dqrele"? SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2015-07-01 10:00 +0200
    Re: XFS: Fine-tuning for checks before the function call  "xfs_qm_dqrele"? Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-07-02 02:30 +0200

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