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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-03-23 00:10:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-23 11:01:22 -0700
commit105fd108a66ceff2b0fb710582b97d61ee4c9d40 (patch)
tree33d5acd7ec1acd625ae76be9b8b969c5b4a9a814 /fs/ext3
parentcee9e8c5cb1554e9e85ad764d27b6c808555ed89 (diff)
[PATCH] "ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix" performance fix
A little mistake in 8a2bfdcbfa441d8b0e5cb9c9a7f45f77f80da465 is making all transactions synchronous, which reduces ext3 performance to comical levels. Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/xattr.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr.c b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
index 12f7dda1232..f58cbb26323 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
@@ -495,7 +495,8 @@ ext3_xattr_release_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
BHDR(bh)->h_refcount = cpu_to_le32(
le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount) - 1);
error = ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
- handle->h_sync = 1;
+ if (IS_SYNC(inode))
+ handle->h_sync = 1;
DQUOT_FREE_BLOCK(inode, 1);
ea_bdebug(bh, "refcount now=%d; releasing",
le32_to_cpu(BHDR(bh)->h_refcount));