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Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext3/inode.c | 23 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 6e35762b6169..13edf7ad3ff1 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1596,6 +1596,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_underlying_metadata); * locked buffer. This only can happen if someone has written the buffer * directly, with submit_bh(). At the address_space level PageWriteback * prevents this contention from occurring. + * + * If block_write_full_page() is called with wbc->sync_mode == + * WB_SYNC_ALL, the writes are posted using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG; this + * causes the writes to be flagged as synchronous writes, but the + * block device queue will NOT be unplugged, since usually many pages + * will be pushed to the out before the higher-level caller actually + * waits for the writes to be completed. The various wait functions, + * such as wait_on_writeback_range() will ultimately call sync_page() + * which will ultimately call blk_run_backing_dev(), which will end up + * unplugging the device queue. */ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc) @@ -1606,7 +1616,8 @@ 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); + int write_op = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ? + WRITE_SYNC_PLUG : WRITE); BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c index 466a332e0bd1..fcfa24361856 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -1521,12 +1521,16 @@ static int ext3_ordered_writepage(struct page *page, if (!page_has_buffers(page)) { create_empty_buffers(page, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize, (1 << BH_Dirty)|(1 << BH_Uptodate)); - } else if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page), 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, NULL, buffer_unmapped)) { - /* Provide NULL instead of get_block so that we catch bugs if buffers weren't really mapped */ - return block_write_full_page(page, NULL, wbc); + page_bufs = page_buffers(page); + } else { + page_bufs = page_buffers(page); + if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_bufs, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, + NULL, buffer_unmapped)) { + /* Provide NULL get_block() to catch bugs if buffers + * weren't really mapped */ + return block_write_full_page(page, NULL, wbc); + } } - page_bufs = page_buffers(page); - handle = ext3_journal_start(inode, ext3_writepage_trans_blocks(inode)); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { @@ -1581,6 +1585,15 @@ static int ext3_writeback_writepage(struct page *page, if (ext3_journal_current_handle()) goto out_fail; + if (page_has_buffers(page)) { + if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_buffers(page), 0, + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, NULL, buffer_unmapped)) { + /* Provide NULL get_block() to catch bugs if buffers + * weren't really mapped */ + return block_write_full_page(page, NULL, wbc); + } + } + handle = ext3_journal_start(inode, ext3_writepage_trans_blocks(inode)); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { ret = PTR_ERR(handle); |