[PATCH] f2fs: no need to take page lock in readdir

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 23:59:48 EST


VFS will take inode_lock for readdir, therefore no need to
take page lock in readdir at all just as the majority of
other generic filesystems.

This patch improves concurrency since .iterate_shared
was introduced to VFS years ago.

Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

personally tend to use read_mapping_page here, but it seems
that f2fs has some remaining customized code since it was
merged into Linux, use f2fs_find_data_page instead.

fs/f2fs/dir.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/dir.c b/fs/f2fs/dir.c
index ecc3a4e2be96..64602bc1e092 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/dir.c
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ static int f2fs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
page_cache_sync_readahead(inode->i_mapping, ra, file, n,
min(npages - n, (pgoff_t)MAX_DIR_RA_PAGES));

- dentry_page = f2fs_get_lock_data_page(inode, n, false);
+ dentry_page = f2fs_find_data_page(inode, n);
if (IS_ERR(dentry_page)) {
err = PTR_ERR(dentry_page);
if (err == -ENOENT) {
@@ -891,11 +891,11 @@ static int f2fs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
err = f2fs_fill_dentries(ctx, &d,
n * NR_DENTRY_IN_BLOCK, &fstr);
if (err) {
- f2fs_put_page(dentry_page, 1);
+ f2fs_put_page(dentry_page, 0);
break;
}

- f2fs_put_page(dentry_page, 1);
+ f2fs_put_page(dentry_page, 0);
}
out_free:
fscrypt_fname_free_buffer(&fstr);
--
2.14.4