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DateTue, 6 Jan 2009 15:11:31 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:57:44 -0500
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:43:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > fs-sys_sync-fix.patch
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good idea.  Concurrent syncs are a bad idea
> to start with and we should just synchronyze do_sync completely.
> sync_filesystems as one of the main components of do_sync already
> is synchronized in that way, and taking that to a higher level would
> get rid of all the worries about concurrent syncs.

Yes, single-threading sys_sync() would fix the problem which that patch
addresses.

However there are a lot of performance and correctness issues around
sys_sync()-versus-fsync(), etc for which such a simple fix won't be
acceptable.



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