Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:05:44 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers | From | richard -rw- weinberger <> |
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> wrote: > Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called > in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and > the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some > file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and > ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make > sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each > individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there. > Thanks, > > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
A small note from checkpatch.pl:
ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #1109: FILE: fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c:367: + struct inode * inode = file->f_mapping->host;
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