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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2011-01-14 12:07:43 (GMT) |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-17 07:25:31 (GMT) |
commit | 2fe17c1075836b66678ed2a305fd09b6773883aa (patch) | |
tree | eb5287be8138686682eef9622872cfc7657e0664 /README | |
parent | 64c23e86873ee410554d6d1c76b60da47025e96f (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-2fe17c1075836b66678ed2a305fd09b6773883aa.tar.xz |
fallocate should be a file operation
Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously,
while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC
I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE
case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the
other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path
uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given
that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from
an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure
available that lets us check for O_SYNC.
This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems,
and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire
up fallocate for regular files.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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