Thread (170 messages) 170 messages, 32 authors, 2007-08-16

Re: [patch] implement smarter atime updates support

From: Arjan van de Ven <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-05 19:55:25
Also in: lkml

+static int relatime_need_update(struct inode *inode, struct timespec now)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Is mtime younger than atime? If yes, update atime:
+	 */
+	if (timespec_compare(&inode->i_mtime, &inode->i_atime) >= 0)
+		return 1;
+	/*
+	 * Is ctime younger than atime? If yes, update atime:
+	 */
+	if (timespec_compare(&inode->i_ctime, &inode->i_atime) >= 0)
+		return 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * Is the previous atime value older than a day? If yes,
+	 * update atime:
+	 */
+	if ((long)(now.tv_sec - inode->i_atime.tv_sec) >= 24*60*60)
+		return 1;

you might want to add

	/* 
	 * if the inode is dirty already, do the atime update since
	 * we'll be doing the disk IO anyway to clean the inode.
	 */
	if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)
		return 1;


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