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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue 13-01-09 23:24:02, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> >
>> > This looks sane to me, and it does fix the below testcase.
>> >
>> > Care to formally propose it?
>>
>> Can we confirm what is being proposed? From following this thread, I
>> think what folks are suggesting is:
>>
>> 1) Revert the current "ext3/4: wait on all pending ocmmits in ext3/4_sync_fs"
> Yes.
>
>> 2) Apply Jan's patch "jbd[2]: Fix return value of journal_start_commit()"
> Yes.
>
>> 3) Also apply Jan's patch "jbd2: Skip commit of a transaction without
>> any buffers" since it appears to be a good optimization (although it's
>> not clear it would happen once we revert (1), above.
> Yes, it's an optimization but I'm still a bit afraid about something
> relying on jbd2_journal_force_commit() implying a barrier which would not
> always be a case after this patch... So we should probably audit all users of
> ext4_force_commit() and check that this change is fine with them.

Ted/Jan/Eric,

I just wanted to followup on this to see what the plan is. Items 1
and 2 haven't occurred in any of the ext4.git branches that I can see.
I could be missing something but it seems this may have slipped
through the ext[34] cracks?

Mike


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