Re: [PATCH 4/9] [PATCH 4/9] xfs: dont serialise direct IO reads on page cache

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:34:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 01:13:40PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There is no need to grab the i_mutex of the IO lock in exclusive
> > mode if we don't need to invalidate the page cache. Taking these
> > locks on every direct IO effective serialises them as taking the IO
> > lock in exclusive mode has to wait for all shared holders to drop
> > the lock. That only happens when IO is complete, so effective it
> > prevents dispatch of concurrent direct IO reads to the same inode.
> > 
> > Fix this by taking the IO lock shared to check the page cache state,
> > and only then drop it and take the IO lock exclusively if there is
> > work to be done. Hence for the normal direct IO case, no exclusive
> > locking will occur.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>
> 
> What is the git commit id that matches this patch in Linus's tree?

Nevermind, I found it, 0c38a2512df272b14ef4238b476a2e4f70da1479, right?

Next time, please include the git commit id of the patch in Linus's tree
so I don't have to dig it out like I did for this series.

thanks,

greg k-h