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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/fadvise.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c index 6c707bfe02fd..a43013112581 100644 --- a/mm/fadvise.c +++ b/mm/fadvise.c @@ -139,7 +139,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice) } if (end_index >= start_index) { - unsigned long count = invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, + unsigned long count; + + /* + * It's common to FADV_DONTNEED right after + * the read or write that instantiates the + * pages, in which case there will be some + * sitting on the local LRU cache. Try to + * avoid the expensive remote drain and the + * second cache tree walk below by flushing + * them out right away. + */ + lru_add_drain(); + + count = invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index, end_index); /* |