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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> | 2006-06-13 06:26:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk> | 2006-06-23 15:10:39 (GMT) |
| commit | b31dc66a54ad986b6b73bdc49c8efc17cbad1833 (patch) | |
| tree | 5591383c1cbffe11512da889c971f899333f1a44 /block/as-iosched.c | |
| parent | 271f18f102c789f59644bb6c53a69da1df72b2f4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b31dc66a54ad986b6b73bdc49c8efc17cbad1833.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag
A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly
ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async
io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async,
and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the
previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ,
this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling.
Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let
the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync
by using WRITE_SYNC instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/as-iosched.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/as-iosched.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/as-iosched.c b/block/as-iosched.c index 9b13d72..56c99fa 100644 --- a/block/as-iosched.c +++ b/block/as-iosched.c @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ static void as_add_request(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq) arq->state = AS_RQ_NEW; if (rq_data_dir(arq->request) == READ - || current->flags&PF_SYNCWRITE) + || (arq->request->flags & REQ_RW_SYNC)) arq->is_sync = 1; else arq->is_sync = 0; |