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Shawn Bohrer authored
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: default avatarShawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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