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SubjectRe: [PATCHv4 17/17] writeback: lessen sync_supers wakeup count
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On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 05:26 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> I suspect that most of those used to rely on lock_super() way back.
> In case of ext2_sync_super() we probably want just to move ->s_dirt = 0
> into the very beginning; no serialization is really needed beyond (_maybe_)
> some barriers. No idea about affs, needs to be checked.

Yeah, moving s_dirt to the beginning should work. I think the same
should be done for affs. I'll look at other FS-es WRT this as well.

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Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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