Re: [patch] implement smarter atime updates support

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> +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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