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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] fs/mpage.c: forgotten WRITE_SYNC in case of data integrity write
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:07:04PM +0900, Roman Peniaev wrote:
>> Seems the following message should be better:
>> When data inegrity operation (sync, fsync, fdatasync calls) happens
>> writeback control is set to WB_SYNC_ALL.
>> In that case all write requests are marked with WRITE_SYNC, but on
>> mpage writeback path
>> WRITE_SYNC is missed. This patch fixes this.
>>
>> Is it ok, what do you think?
>
> I think the description should make it clear that WRITE_SYNC is about
> latency, not about integrity and we probably should add comments
> explaining why we're using WRITE_SYNC for WB_SYNC_ALL (because there
> probably is someone waiting).

I sent v2 of the patch where I tried to be more explicit in details.
Please, check.

--
Roman


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