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    nilfs2: improve the performance of fdatasync() · b9f66140
    Andreas Rohner authored
    
    
    Support for fdatasync() has been implemented in NILFS2 for a long time,
    but whenever the corresponding inode is dirty the implementation falls
    back to a full-flegded sync().  Since every write operation has to
    update the modification time of the file, the inode will almost always
    be dirty and fdatasync() will fall back to sync() most of the time.  But
    this fallback is only necessary for a change of the file size and not
    for a change of the various timestamps.
    
    This patch adds a new flag NILFS_I_INODE_SYNC to differentiate between
    those two situations.
    
     * If it is set the file size was changed and a full sync is necessary.
     * If it is not set then only the timestamps were updated and
       fdatasync() can go ahead.
    
    There is already a similar flag I_DIRTY_DATASYNC on the VFS layer with
    the exact same semantics.  Unfortunately it cannot be used directly,
    because NILFS2 doesn't implement write_inode() and doesn't clear the VFS
    flags when inodes are written out.  So the VFS writeback thread can
    clear I_DIRTY_DATASYNC at any time without notifying NILFS2.  So
    I_DIRTY_DATASYNC has to be mapped onto NILFS_I_INODE_SYNC in
    nilfs_update_inode().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@gmx.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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