From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>,
ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>,
Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>,
linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:22:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090826182236.GA1290@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090820162729.GA24659@infradead.org>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:27:29PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Maybe you can help brain storming, but I still can't see any way in that
> the
>
> - write data
> - write inode
> - wait for data
>
> actually is a benefit in terms of semantics (I agree that it could be
> faster in theory, but even that is debatable with todays seek latencies
> in disks)
Btw, another reason why our current default is actively harmful:
barriers
With volatile write caches we do have to flush the disk write cache in
->fsync, either implicitly by a metadata operation, or explicitly if
only data changed. Unless the filesystems waits itself for the data
to hit the disk like XFS or btrfs will be issue the cache flush
potentially before the data write has actually reached the disk cache.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1250697884-22288-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
2009-08-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode Jan Kara
2009-08-19 16:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-20 12:15 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-20 16:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-21 15:23 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-21 15:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-21 15:48 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-26 18:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-08-27 0:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 08/17] ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode Jan Kara
2009-08-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 09/17] ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write Jan Kara
2009-08-19 16:04 ` [PATCH 10/17] ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write Jan Kara
[not found] <1250874001-15483-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
2009-08-21 16:59 ` [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode Jan Kara
[not found] <1250875447-15622-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
2009-08-21 17:23 ` Jan Kara
2009-08-27 17:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30 16:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-30 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30 17:29 ` Jamie Lokier
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