loop: only write back pagecache when starting to to use direct I/O

There is no point in doing an fdatasync to write out pages when switching
away from direct I/O, as there won't be any.  The writeback is only
needed when switching to direct I/O, which would have to invalidate the
pagecache less efficiently from the I/O path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

Author: Christoph Hellwig

drivers/block/loop.c

@@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ static void __loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo, bool dio)
 	if (lo->use_dio == use_dio)
 		return;
 
-	/* flush dirty pages before changing direct IO */
-	vfs_fsync(lo->lo_backing_file, 0);
+	/* flush dirty pages before starting to use direct I/O */
+	if (use_dio)
+		vfs_fsync(lo->lo_backing_file, 0);
 
 	/*
 	 * The flag of LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO is handled similarly with