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-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_file.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index 7f7b42469ea7..8fd4a0708d30 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -317,7 +317,19 @@ xfs_file_aio_read(
if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
return -EIO;
- if (unlikely(ioflags & IO_ISDIRECT)) {
+ /*
+ * Locking is a bit tricky here. If we take an exclusive lock
+ * for direct IO, we effectively serialise all new concurrent
+ * read IO to this file and block it behind IO that is currently in
+ * progress because IO in progress holds the IO lock shared. We only
+ * need to hold the lock exclusive to blow away the page cache, so
+ * only take lock exclusively if the page cache needs invalidation.
+ * This allows the normal direct IO case of no page cache pages to
+ * proceeed concurrently without serialisation.
+ */
+ xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED);
+ if ((ioflags & IO_ISDIRECT) && inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
+ xfs_rw_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED);
xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
@@ -330,8 +342,7 @@ xfs_file_aio_read(
}
}
xfs_rw_ilock_demote(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
- } else
- xfs_rw_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED);
+ }
trace_xfs_file_read(ip, size, iocb->ki_pos, ioflags);