From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: open-osd mailing-list <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: Avoid using file_fsync()
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:52:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A367C51.4080305@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090615135044.GA2553@infradead.org>
On 06/15/2009 04:50 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 04:31:01PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> + ret = write_inode_now(inode, 0);
>
> You shouldn't need a write_inode_now, but rather just a similar
> sync_inode call as in ext2 or the new simple_fsync as data was
> already written by the VFS.
>
I looked into it some more and need your advise please?
It looks simple_fsync, sync_inode, and write_inode_now all do
__writeback_single_inode() inside. But write_inode_now also
waits.
I think I want to wait here, it's my close-to-open barrier.
No?
Thanks
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-15 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-15 13:31 [PATCH] exofs: Avoid using file_fsync() Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 13:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-15 14:30 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 16:52 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2009-06-15 17:07 ` [PATCH version 2] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-06-15 17:21 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2009-06-15 17:23 ` Boaz Harrosh
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