From 90abccf2c6e6e9c5a5d519eaed95292afa30aa11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miao Xie Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:53:47 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Btrfs: do not do filemap_write_and_wait_range in fsync" This reverts commit 0885ef5b5601e9b007c383e77c172769b1f214fd After applying the above patch, the performance slowed down because the dirty page flush can only be done by one task, so revert it. The following is the test result of sysbench: Before After 24MB/s 39MB/s Signed-off-by: Miao Xie --- fs/btrfs/file.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index 0a4b03d8fcd6..d0fc4c5aaf15 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -1544,12 +1544,20 @@ int btrfs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync) trace_btrfs_sync_file(file, datasync); + /* + * We write the dirty pages in the range and wait until they complete + * out of the ->i_mutex. If so, we can flush the dirty pages by + * multi-task, and make the performance up. + */ + ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end); + if (ret) + return ret; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); /* - * we wait first, since the writeback may change the inode, also wait - * ordered range does a filemape_write_and_wait_range which is why we - * don't do it above like other file systems. + * We flush the dirty pages again to avoid some dirty pages in the + * range being left. */ atomic_inc(&root->log_batch); btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, start, end); -- 2.34.1