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Andrew Morton authored
For some filesystems (ext3, reiserfs at least), ->dirty_inode() is very expensive. The kernel is currently calling mark_inode_dirty() at up to 1000 times/sec/inode. But there is no need to do this if the filesystem cannot store high-resolution times on-disk. This patch restores the optimisation of only dirtying the filesystem inode when its on-disk representation has actually changed. The filesystem will set the MS_ONE_SECOND flag in sb->s_flags to indicate that it wishes to receive this treatment. The patch does reduce the call rate to ext3_mark_inode_dirty() from 1000/sec to 1/sec, but it doesn't make much difference at all to performance because we're calling ext3_mark_inode_dirty() from other callsites as well. Those can be optimised too.
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