[PATCH 1/7] mm: Speedup cancel_dirty_page() for clean pages

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

cancel_dirty_page() does quite some work even for clean pages (fetching
of mapping, locking of memcg, atomic bit op on page flags) so it
accounts for ~2.5% of cost of truncation of a clean page. That is not
much but still dumb for something we don't need at all. Check whether
a page is actually dirty and avoid any work if not.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 include/linux/mm.h  | 8 +++++++-
 mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 065d99deb847..d14a9bb2a3d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1430,7 +1430,13 @@ void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
 			  struct bdi_writeback *wb);
 int set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
 int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page);
-void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page);
+void __cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page);
+static inline void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	/* Avoid atomic ops, locking, etc. when not actually needed. */
+	if (PageDirty(page))
+		__cancel_dirty_page(page);
+}
 int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page);
 
 int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 0b9c5cbe8eba..c3bed3f5cd24 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2623,7 +2623,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty_lock);
  * page without actually doing it through the VM. Can you say "ext3 is
  * horribly ugly"? Thought you could.
  */
-void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
+void __cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
 
@@ -2644,7 +2644,7 @@ void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
 		ClearPageDirty(page);
 	}
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_dirty_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cancel_dirty_page);
 
 /*
  * Clear a page's dirty flag, while caring for dirty memory accounting.
-- 
2.12.3

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