From 7058548cd50e5bda8db086bb2e5c1d82f746d047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:35:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() If a commit is triggered by fsync(), set a flag indicating the journal blocks associated with the transaction should be flushed out using WRITE_SYNC. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/jbd2/commit.c | 5 ++++- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 2 ++ include/linux/jbd2.h | 6 ++++++ 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c index 62804e57a44c..4ea72377c7a2 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c @@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal) int tag_bytes = journal_tag_bytes(journal); struct buffer_head *cbh = NULL; /* For transactional checksums */ __u32 crc32_sum = ~0; + int write_op = WRITE; /* * First job: lock down the current transaction and wait for @@ -401,6 +402,8 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal) spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); commit_transaction->t_state = T_LOCKED; + if (commit_transaction->t_synchronous_commit) + write_op = WRITE_SYNC; stats.u.run.rs_wait = commit_transaction->t_max_wait; stats.u.run.rs_locked = jiffies; stats.u.run.rs_running = jbd2_time_diff(commit_transaction->t_start, @@ -680,7 +683,7 @@ start_journal_io: clear_buffer_dirty(bh); set_buffer_uptodate(bh); bh->b_end_io = journal_end_buffer_io_sync; - submit_bh(WRITE, bh); + submit_bh(write_op, bh); } cond_resched(); stats.u.run.rs_blocks_logged += bufs; diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index 28ce21d8598e..996ffda06bf3 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -1315,6 +1315,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle) } } + if (handle->h_sync) + transaction->t_synchronous_commit = 1; current->journal_info = NULL; spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); spin_lock(&transaction->t_handle_lock); diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h index 4d248b3f1323..8815a3456b3b 100644 --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h @@ -648,6 +648,12 @@ struct transaction_s */ int t_handle_count; + /* + * This transaction is being forced and some process is + * waiting for it to finish. + */ + int t_synchronous_commit:1; + /* * For use by the filesystem to store fs-specific data * structures associated with the transaction