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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2016-04-24 00:56:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2016-04-24 00:56:08 -0400 |
| commit | ee0876bc69ee8d24d524fb2e9e41e3682aaebb11 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a3b6725cf029b704f47018ff8fbce41a84be1b3 /fs/ext4/ext4.h | |
| parent | 41617e1a8dec9fe082ba5dec26bacb154eb55482 (diff) | |
ext4: do not ask jbd2 to write data for delalloc buffers
Currently we ask jbd2 to write all dirty allocated buffers before
committing a transaction when doing writeback of delay allocated blocks.
However this is unnecessary since we move all pages to writeback state
before dropping a transaction handle and then submit all the necessary
IO. We still need the transaction commit to wait for all the outstanding
writeback before flushing disk caches during transaction commit to avoid
data exposure issues though. Use the new jbd2 capability and ask it to
only wait for outstanding writeback during transaction commit when
writing back data in ext4_writepages().
Tested-by: "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@cn.bosch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/ext4.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index f75e9ebd4ca2..cb00b1119ec9 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -581,6 +581,9 @@ enum { #define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO 0x0200 #define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_ZERO (EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE |\ EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_ZERO) + /* Caller will submit data before dropping transaction handle. This + * allows jbd2 to avoid submitting data before commit. */ +#define EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_SUBMIT 0x0400 /* * The bit position of these flags must not overlap with any of the |