From a545acb9dfc3a7abf4c9297a3a88e4f2d2ef9a09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:59:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"" This reverts commit f7b8746e6b5bd70fb337ac1bf87ff6b633a3ea2f. Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be reverted. So revert the revert. Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 006b7a2070bf6..420fe3deed397 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4586,6 +4586,7 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh; struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; ext4_fsblk_t block; + struct blk_plug plug; int inodes_per_block, inode_offset; iloc->bh = NULL; @@ -4674,6 +4675,7 @@ make_io: * If we need to do any I/O, try to pre-readahead extra * blocks from the inode table. */ + blk_start_plug(&plug); if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_inode_readahead_blks) { ext4_fsblk_t b, end, table; unsigned num; @@ -4704,6 +4706,7 @@ make_io: get_bh(bh); bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync; submit_bh(REQ_OP_READ, REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh); + blk_finish_plug(&plug); wait_on_buffer(bh); if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { EXT4_ERROR_INODE_BLOCK(inode, block, -- 2.39.5