Do a similar optimization as earlier for touch_atime. Getting the lock in

mnt_get_write is relatively costly, so try all avenues to avoid it first.

This patch is careful to still only update inode fields inside the lock
region.

This didn't show up in benchmarks, but it's easy enough to do.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

fs/inode.c

@@ -1458,33 +1458,36 @@ void file_update_time(struct file *file)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
 	struct timespec now;
-	int sync_it = 0;
-	int err;
+	enum { S_MTIME = 1, S_CTIME = 2, S_VERSION = 4 } sync_it = 0;
 
+	/* First try to exhaust all avenues to not sync */
 	if (IS_NOCMTIME(inode))
 		return;
 
-	err = mnt_want_write_file(file);
-	if (err)
-		return;
-
 	now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
-	if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_mtime, &now)) {
-		inode->i_mtime = now;
-		sync_it = 1;
-	}
+	if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_mtime, &now))
+		sync_it = S_MTIME;
 
-	if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now)) {
-		inode->i_ctime = now;
-		sync_it = 1;
-	}
+	if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now))
+		sync_it |= S_CTIME;
 
-	if (IS_I_VERSION(inode)) {
-		inode_inc_iversion(inode);
-		sync_it = 1;
-	}
+	if (IS_I_VERSION(inode))
+		sync_it |= S_VERSION;
 
-	if (sync_it)
+	if (!sync_it)
+		return;
+
+	/* Finally allowed to write? Takes lock. */
+	if (!mnt_want_write_file(file))
+		return;
+
+	/* Only change inode inside the lock region */
+	if (sync_it & S_VERSION)
+		inode_inc_iversion(inode);
+	if (sync_it & S_CTIME)
+		inode->i_ctime = now;
+	if (sync_it & S_MTIME)
+		inode->i_mtime = now;
 	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
 	mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
 }