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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2010-06-17 08:54:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-08-07 18:15:44 +0200 |
| commit | 41f2df62894bfcd3bf868af916b32b90aa7168dc (patch) | |
| tree | b582399975cd1cf19aa8b6e67623f252b7cada85 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | 01b6b67edabe864391163dc6405e2cb454f108db (diff) | |
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block: BARRIER request should imply SYNC
A barrier request should by defintion have priority in get_request
and let the queue be unplugged immediately as it's blocking all forward
progress due to the queue draining.
Most filesystems already get this implicitly by the way how submit_bh
treats the buffer_ordered flag, and gfs2 sets it explicitly. But btrfs
and XFS are still forgetting to set the flag, as is blkdev_issue_flush
and some places in DM/MD.
For XFS on metadata heavy workloads this gives a consistent speedup
in the 2-3% range.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 68ca1b0491af..598878831497 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { * SWRITE_SYNC * SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG Like WRITE_SYNC/WRITE_SYNC_PLUG, but locks the buffer. * See SWRITE. - * WRITE_BARRIER Like WRITE, but tells the block layer that all + * WRITE_BARRIER Like WRITE_SYNC, but tells the block layer that all * previously submitted writes must be safely on storage * before this one is started. Also guarantees that when * this write is complete, it itself is also safely on @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { #define SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG \ (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE)) #define SWRITE_SYNC (SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG)) -#define WRITE_BARRIER (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER)) +#define WRITE_BARRIER (WRITE_SYNC | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER)) /* * These aren't really reads or writes, they pass down information about |