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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2009-03-27 22:14:10 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2009-03-27 22:14:10 -0400
commita64c8610bd3b753c6aff58f51c04cdf0ae478c18 (patch)
treeca9ec4d9ca3d7195521a4004c6a599a35faafe5e /fs/buffer.c
parent8e0ee43bc2c3e19db56a4adaa9a9b04ce885cd84 (diff)
downloadlinux-a64c8610bd3b753c6aff58f51c04cdf0ae478c18.tar.gz
block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks
When doing synchronous writes because wbc->sync_mode is set to
WBC_SYNC_ALL, send the write request using WRITE_SYNC, so that we
don't unduly block system calls such as fsync().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 891e1c78e4f1..e7ebd95e0c68 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 	struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
 	const unsigned blocksize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
 	int nr_underway = 0;
+	int write_op = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ? WRITE_SYNC : WRITE);
 
 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 
@@ -1805,7 +1806,7 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 	do {
 		struct buffer_head *next = bh->b_this_page;
 		if (buffer_async_write(bh)) {
-			submit_bh(WRITE, bh);
+			submit_bh(write_op, bh);
 			nr_underway++;
 		}
 		bh = next;
@@ -1859,7 +1860,7 @@ recover:
 		struct buffer_head *next = bh->b_this_page;
 		if (buffer_async_write(bh)) {
 			clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
-			submit_bh(WRITE, bh);
+			submit_bh(write_op, bh);
 			nr_underway++;
 		}
 		bh = next;