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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> | 2006-06-13 08:26:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk> | 2006-06-23 17:10:39 +0200 |
| commit | b31dc66a54ad986b6b73bdc49c8efc17cbad1833 (patch) | |
| tree | 5591383c1cbffe11512da889c971f899333f1a44 /fs/fs-writeback.c | |
| parent | 271f18f102c789f59644bb6c53a69da1df72b2f4 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag
A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly
ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async
io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async,
and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the
previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ,
this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling.
Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let
the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync
by using WRITE_SYNC instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 6db95cf3aaa2..031b27a4bc9a 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -623,7 +623,6 @@ int generic_osync_inode(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, int int need_write_inode_now = 0; int err2; - current->flags |= PF_SYNCWRITE; if (what & OSYNC_DATA) err = filemap_fdatawrite(mapping); if (what & (OSYNC_METADATA|OSYNC_DATA)) { @@ -636,7 +635,6 @@ int generic_osync_inode(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, int if (!err) err = err2; } - current->flags &= ~PF_SYNCWRITE; spin_lock(&inode_lock); if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) && |
