From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: cifs_flush should wait for writeback to complete before proceeding Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:16:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20100925081644.777952fe@corrin.poochiereds.net> References: <1285333153-9113-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20100924141137.4cb03197@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20100925042330.GA11930@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve French , linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100925042330.GA11930-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:23:30 -0400 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:11:37PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:58:55 -0500 > > Steve French wrote: > > > > > We need to see the performance impact. As you say cifs_writepages is > > > synchronous so we should be ok without it. Any test results > > > before/after? > > > > > > > No, I haven't tested this for performance. It is a correctness issue > > though. We absolutely can't put the last reference to the last open > > filehandle without flushing all of the data first. > > > > My expectation here though is that this may help performance in some > > cases since this patch also has it skip the flush on files open > > read-only. > > ->flush is called on every close call, ->release on the last close for a > given file pointer. Maybe you want a filemap_flush in ->flush and > filemap_write_and_wait in ->release? > Hmm...there is one problem with this scheme. __fput ignores the error return from ->release. Only the errors from ->flush will be returned to userspace. So if we only filemap_fdatawait in the ->release op, then we have the potential to miss returning writeback-related errors on a close call. On a side note, why does f_op->release return an int? Are there places in the kernel besides __fput that call it? If not, maybe we should consider changing it to a void function to make this more clear. -- Jeff Layton