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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [patch] speed up ext3 synchronous mounts
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:01:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020325230114.N4328@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C9E4A18.7DDC68AB@zip.com.au>

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:50:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 
> Again, we don't need to sync indirects as we dirty them because
> we run a commit if IS_SYNC(inode) prior to returning to the
> caller of write(2).
> 
> Writing a 10 meg file in 0.1 meg chunks is sped up by, err,
> a factor of fifty.  That's a best case.
> 
> --- linux-2.4.18-pre8/fs/ext3/inode.c	Tue Feb  5 00:33:05 2002
> +++ linux-akpm/fs/ext3/inode.c	Wed Feb  6 23:40:48 2002
> @@ -581,8 +581,6 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *h
>  			
>  			parent = nr;
>  		}
> -		if (IS_SYNC(inode))
> -			handle->h_sync = 1;
>  	}
>  	if (n == num)
>  		return 0;

OK.  This was just a relic of ages back when we had an overarching
transaction spanning multiple writepages in ext3_file_write().  In
that case, setting that transaction to be synchronous multiple times
was no extra cost.  Doing it just once at the end should be fine.

Cheers,
 Stephen

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-25 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-24 21:50 [patch] speed up ext3 synchronous mounts Andrew Morton
2002-03-25 23:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2002-03-27 19:07 ` Matthias Andree
2002-03-27 19:13   ` Ed Sweetman
2002-03-27 19:17   ` Andreas Dilger

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