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[GFS2] Don't flush everything on fdatasync
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The gfs2_fsync() function was doing a journal flush on each
and every call. While this is correct, its also a lot of
overhead. This patch means that on fdatasync flushes we
rely on the VFS to flush the data for us and we don't do
a journal flush unless we really need to.

We have to do a journal flush for stuffed files though because
they have the data and the inode metadata in the same block.
Journaled files also need a journal flush too of course.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Steven Whitehouse committed Nov 30, 2006
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#include <linux/ext2_fs.h>
#include <linux/crc32.h>
#include <linux/lm_interface.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

#include "gfs2.h"
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* @file: the file that points to the dentry (we ignore this)
* @dentry: the dentry that points to the inode to sync
*
* The VFS will flush "normal" data for us. We only need to worry
* about metadata here. For journaled data, we just do a log flush
* as we can't avoid it. Otherwise we can just bale out if datasync
* is set. For stuffed inodes we must flush the log in order to
* ensure that all data is on disk.
*
* Returns: errno
*/

static int gfs2_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
{
struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(dentry->d_inode);
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
int sync_state = inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC);
int ret = 0;
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
.nr_to_write = 0,
};

if (gfs2_is_jdata(GFS2_I(inode))) {
gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), GFS2_I(inode)->i_gl);
return 0;
}

gfs2_log_flush(ip->i_gl->gl_sbd, ip->i_gl);
if (sync_state != 0) {
if (!datasync)
ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);

return 0;
if (gfs2_is_stuffed(GFS2_I(inode)))
gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), GFS2_I(inode)->i_gl);
}

return ret;
}

/**
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