this is unnecessary when we know we are overwriting already allocated blocks and the overhead of starting a transaction can be significant especially for multithreaded workloads doing small writes.
Signed-off-by: Yohan Joung <yohan.jo...@sk.com> --- fs/f2fs/data.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c index d872f785a996..d99ec9370b1d 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -4181,7 +4181,13 @@ static int f2fs_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length, map.m_next_pgofs = &next_pgofs; map.m_seg_type = f2fs_rw_hint_to_seg_type(F2FS_I_SB(inode), inode->i_write_hint); - if (flags & IOMAP_WRITE) + + /* + * If the blocks being overwritten are already allocated, + * f2fs_map_lock and f2fs_balance_fs are not necessary. + */ + if ((flags & IOMAP_WRITE) && + !f2fs_overwrite_io(inode, offset, length)) map.m_may_create = true; err = f2fs_map_blocks(inode, &map, F2FS_GET_BLOCK_DIO); -- 2.25.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel