forked from Minki/linux
58c5873a76
This patch changes the 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' function which submits the superblock for I/O in the following cases: 1. When creating the first large file on a file system without EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature. 2. When re-sizing the file-system. 3. When creating an xattr on a file-system without the EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR feature. If the file-system has journal enabled, the superblock is written via the journal. We do not modify this path. If the file-system has no journal, this function, falls back to just marking the superblock as dirty using the 's_dirt' superblock flag. This means that it delays the actual superblock I/O submission by 5 seconds (default setting). Namely, the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread will call 'ext4_write_super()' later and will actually submit the superblock for I/O. And this is the behavior this patch modifies: we stop using 's_dirt' and just mark the superblock buffer as dirty right away. Indeed, all 3 cases above are extremely rare and it does not add any value to delay the I/O submission for them. Note: 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' executes '__ext4_handle_dirty_super()' with 'now = 0'. This patch basically makes the 'now' argument unneeded and it will be deleted in one of the next patches. This patch also removes 's_dirt' condition on the unmount path because we never set it anymore, so we should not test it. Tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> |
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| .. | ||
| acl.c | ||
| acl.h | ||
| balloc.c | ||
| bitmap.c | ||
| block_validity.c | ||
| dir.c | ||
| ext4_extents.h | ||
| ext4_jbd2.c | ||
| ext4_jbd2.h | ||
| ext4.h | ||
| extents.c | ||
| file.c | ||
| fsync.c | ||
| hash.c | ||
| ialloc.c | ||
| indirect.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mballoc.c | ||
| mballoc.h | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mmp.c | ||
| move_extent.c | ||
| namei.c | ||
| page-io.c | ||
| resize.c | ||
| super.c | ||
| symlink.c | ||
| truncate.h | ||
| xattr_security.c | ||
| xattr_trusted.c | ||
| xattr_user.c | ||
| xattr.c | ||
| xattr.h | ||