From: Jan Kara Many inodes have no pagecache, so we can avoid lots of lock-takings. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/drop_caches.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/drop_caches.c~vfs-skip-inodes-without-pages-to-free-in-drop_pagecache_sb fs/drop_caches.c --- a/fs/drop_caches.c~vfs-skip-inodes-without-pages-to-free-in-drop_pagecache_sb +++ a/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct sup list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE)) continue; + if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0) + continue; __iget(inode); spin_unlock(&inode_lock); __invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true); _