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[2/3] ext4: Explicitly specify fsync dependency on journaling thread

Message ID 1309205864-13124-3-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com
State New, archived
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Vivek Goyal June 27, 2011, 8:17 p.m. UTC
Set/reset fsync dependency of fsync on journalling thread. This allows
CFQ to dispatch IO from journalling thread in fsync's time slice.
Otherwise, lots of cfq queue idling takes place if fsync is running
in a separate cgroup and journalling thread is running in root group.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
---
 fs/ext4/fsync.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index ce66d2f..8b16a90 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -216,7 +216,10 @@  int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync)
 	    !jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal, commit_tid))
 		needs_barrier = true;
 	jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid);
+	blk_set_depends_on_task(journal->j_dev->bd_disk->queue,
+				journal->j_task);
 	ret = jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
+	blk_reset_depends_on_task(journal->j_dev->bd_disk->queue);
 	if (needs_barrier)
 		blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
  out: