From a0375156ca1041574b5d47cc7e32f10b891151b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:14:04 -0400 Subject: ext4: Clean up s_dirt handling We don't need to set s_dirt in most of the ext4 code when journaling is enabled. In ext3/4 some of the summary statistics for # of free inodes, blocks, and directories are calculated from the per-block group statistics when the file system is mounted or unmounted. As a result the superblock doesn't have to be updated, either via the journal or by setting s_dirt. There are a few exceptions, most notably when resizing the file system, where the superblock needs to be modified --- and in that case it should be done as a journalled operation if possible, and s_dirt set only in no-journal mode. This patch will optimize out some unneeded disk writes when using ext4 with a journal. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/xattr.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 04338009793..a6f31424957 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -458,8 +458,7 @@ static void ext4_xattr_update_super_block(handle_t *handle, if (ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh) == 0) { EXT4_SET_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR); - sb->s_dirt = 1; - ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh); + ext4_handle_dirty_super(handle, sb); } } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2