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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] direct I/O fallback sync simplification
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:07:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090923130730.GC10759@lst.de> (raw)

In the case of direct I/O falling back to buffered I/O we sync data
twice currently: once at the end of generic_file_buffered_write using
filemap_write_and_wait_range and once a little later in
__generic_file_aio_write using do_sync_mapping_range with all flags set.

The wait before write of the do_sync_mapping_range call does not make
any sense, so just keep the filemap_write_and_wait_range call and move
it to the right spot.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: vfs-2.6.git/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- vfs-2.6.git.orig/mm/filemap.c	2009-09-22 14:20:59.917761567 -0300
+++ vfs-2.6.git/mm/filemap.c	2009-09-22 14:28:01.833832530 -0300
@@ -2265,15 +2265,6 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
 		*ppos = pos + status;
   	}
 	
-	/*
-	 * If we get here for O_DIRECT writes then we must have fallen through
-	 * to buffered writes (block instantiation inside i_size).  So we sync
-	 * the file data here, to try to honour O_DIRECT expectations.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) && written)
-		status = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping,
-					pos, pos + written - 1);
-
 	return written ? written : status;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_buffered_write);
@@ -2372,10 +2363,7 @@ ssize_t __generic_file_aio_write(struct 
 		 * semantics.
 		 */
 		endbyte = pos + written_buffered - written - 1;
-		err = do_sync_mapping_range(file->f_mapping, pos, endbyte,
-					    SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|
-					    SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|
-					    SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER);
+		err = filemap_write_and_wait_range(file->f_mapping, pos, endbyte);
 		if (err == 0) {
 			written = written_buffered;
 			invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping,

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23 13:07 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-09-23 14:04 ` [PATCH] direct I/O fallback sync simplification Jamie Lokier
2009-09-26 15:08   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-29 21:30     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-30 12:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-30 18:13         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-26 19:37 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-29 13:08 ` Jan Kara

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