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authorArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2012-07-22 20:33:31 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-07-22 20:33:31 -0400
commit58c5873a769987e36265d1523d2aa5bdc18f32bd (patch)
tree14bb293c91b8da4d1e6874fe324667da4a16e799 /fs/ext4/super.c
parent044ce47fec90ec0f25605e87a5d72cca14568bc3 (diff)
ext4: remove unnecessary superblock dirtying
This patch changes the 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' function which submits the superblock for I/O in the following cases: 1. When creating the first large file on a file system without EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature. 2. When re-sizing the file-system. 3. When creating an xattr on a file-system without the EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR feature. If the file-system has journal enabled, the superblock is written via the journal. We do not modify this path. If the file-system has no journal, this function, falls back to just marking the superblock as dirty using the 's_dirt' superblock flag. This means that it delays the actual superblock I/O submission by 5 seconds (default setting). Namely, the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread will call 'ext4_write_super()' later and will actually submit the superblock for I/O. And this is the behavior this patch modifies: we stop using 's_dirt' and just mark the superblock buffer as dirty right away. Indeed, all 3 cases above are extremely rare and it does not add any value to delay the I/O submission for them. Note: 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' executes '__ext4_handle_dirty_super()' with 'now = 0'. This patch basically makes the 'now' argument unneeded and it will be deleted in one of the next patches. This patch also removes 's_dirt' condition on the unmount path because we never set it anymore, so we should not test it. Tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/super.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index bebf8e5bf08..662e93e8c25 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
EXT4_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);
}
- if (sb->s_dirt || !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+ if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
if (sbi->s_proc) {