Currently in case of DAX, we are starting a transaction
everytime for IOMAP_WRITE case. This can be optimized
away in case of an overwrite (where the blocks were already
allocated). This could give a significant performance boost
for multi-threaded random writes.

Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <rite...@linux.ibm.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h  | 1 +
 fs/ext4/file.c  | 2 +-
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 42f5060f3cdf..9a2138afc751 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -3232,6 +3232,7 @@ extern const struct dentry_operations ext4_dentry_ops;
 extern const struct inode_operations ext4_file_inode_operations;
 extern const struct file_operations ext4_file_operations;
 extern loff_t ext4_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
+extern bool ext4_overwrite_io(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t len);
 
 /* inline.c */
 extern int ext4_get_max_inline_size(struct inode *inode);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index 2a01e31a032c..51cd92ac1758 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ ext4_extending_io(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, 
size_t len)
 }
 
 /* Is IO overwriting allocated and initialized blocks? */
-static bool ext4_overwrite_io(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t len)
+bool ext4_overwrite_io(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t len)
 {
        struct ext4_map_blocks map;
        unsigned int blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 10dd470876b3..f0ac0ee9e991 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3423,6 +3423,7 @@ static int ext4_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t 
offset, loff_t length,
        int ret;
        struct ext4_map_blocks map;
        u8 blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
+       bool overwrite = false;
 
        if ((offset >> blkbits) > EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK)
                return -EINVAL;
@@ -3430,6 +3431,9 @@ static int ext4_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t 
offset, loff_t length,
        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ext4_has_inline_data(inode)))
                return -ERANGE;
 
+       if (IS_DAX(inode) && (flags & IOMAP_WRITE) &&
+           ext4_overwrite_io(inode, offset, length))
+               overwrite = true;
        /*
         * Calculate the first and last logical blocks respectively.
         */
@@ -3437,13 +3441,15 @@ static int ext4_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t 
offset, loff_t length,
        map.m_len = min_t(loff_t, (offset + length - 1) >> blkbits,
                          EXT4_MAX_LOGICAL_BLOCK) - map.m_lblk + 1;
 
-       if (flags & IOMAP_WRITE)
+       if ((flags & IOMAP_WRITE) && !overwrite)
                ret = ext4_iomap_alloc(inode, &map, flags);
        else
                ret = ext4_map_blocks(NULL, inode, &map, 0);
 
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;
+       if (IS_DAX(inode) && overwrite)
+               WARN_ON(!(map.m_flags & EXT4_MAP_MAPPED));
 
        ext4_set_iomap(inode, iomap, &map, offset, length);
 
-- 
2.25.4

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