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Shawn Bohrer committed ad8a1b558e6
fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED Previously POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED would start writeback for the entire file when the bdi was not write congested. This negatively impacts performance if the file contains dirty pages outside of the requested range. This change uses __filemap_fdatawrite_range() to only initiate writeback for the requested range. Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>