linux/mm
Shawn Bohrer ad8a1b558e fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED
Previously POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED would start writeback for the entire file
when the bdi was not write congested.  This negatively impacts performance
if the file contains dirty pages outside of the requested range.  This
change uses __filemap_fdatawrite_range() to only initiate writeback for
the requested range.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
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backing-dev.c freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop() 2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache core ops functions and config 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c convert 'memory' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem 2011-12-21 14:48:43 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c debug-pagealloc: add support for highmem pages 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap.c should_remove_suid(): inode->i_mode is umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:14 -05:00
filemap_xip.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: fix virtual address handling in hugetlb fault 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
ksm.c oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c fs: kill i_alloc_sem 2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
memblock.c memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation using reverse free area iterator 2011-12-08 10:22:09 -08:00
memcontrol.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-01-09 14:46:52 -08:00
memory-failure.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
memory.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: refix mbind_range() vma issue 2011-12-29 16:31:57 -08:00
mempool.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
migrate.c mm: migrate: one less atomic operation 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
mincore.c mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c thp: mremap support and TLB optimization 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
nommu.c xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly 2011-11-16 12:13:08 -05:00
oom_kill.c Merge branch 'master' into pm-sleep 2011-12-21 21:59:45 +01:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: make determine_dirtyable_memory static again 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-11-02 16:07:00 -07:00
page_io.c block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG 2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: fix code comment for THP 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix chunk range calculation 2011-11-22 08:09:46 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: fix per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() handling of non-page-aligned addresses 2011-12-15 11:41:40 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
shmem.c vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
slab.c tracing/mm: Move include of trace/events/kmem.h out of header into slab.c 2012-01-09 14:19:33 -08:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c slub: min order when debug_guardpage_minorder > 0 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
swap.c mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
swap_state.c fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
swapfile.c mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
thrash.c mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
util.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
vmalloc.c Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-linus 2012-01-05 13:24:33 +00:00
vmscan.c mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat 2011-10-31 17:30:51 -07:00