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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: exofs_file_fsync
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:05:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100601100507.GC28762@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C03BDB9.30904@panasas.com>

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 04:46:33PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> You think I also need a:
> 	if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> 		return ret;
> 	if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
> 		return ret;
> before the  write_inode_now call ?

You don't strictly need it, but without it you will perform a lot
of work for no gain if the inode is not actually dirty.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-31 10:09 exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 10:23 ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:27   ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 10:31     ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 10:33       ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 13:43         ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-05-31 13:46           ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 10:05             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-01 10:04           ` exofs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 15:29             ` exofs_file_fsync Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:30 ` [PATCH] exofs: exofs_file_fsync correctness Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:33   ` [osd-dev] " Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 15:40     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 15:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 16:10         ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 16:11   ` [PATCH ver2] exofs: exofs_file_fsync and exofs_file_flush correctness Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 16:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-01 16:36       ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-01 17:03   ` [PATCH ver3] " Boaz Harrosh

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