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[PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag

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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>
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Jens Axboe
2006-06-13 08:26:10 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent 271f18f102
commit b31dc66a54
10 changed files with 20 additions and 29 deletions
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@@ -941,12 +941,11 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
#define PF_KSWAPD 0x00040000 /* I am kswapd */
#define PF_SWAPOFF 0x00080000 /* I am in swapoff */
#define PF_LESS_THROTTLE 0x00100000 /* Throttle me less: I clean memory */
#define PF_SYNCWRITE 0x00200000 /* I am doing a sync write */
#define PF_BORROWED_MM 0x00400000 /* I am a kthread doing use_mm */
#define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00800000 /* randomize virtual address space */
#define PF_SWAPWRITE 0x01000000 /* Allowed to write to swap */
#define PF_SPREAD_PAGE 0x04000000 /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
#define PF_SPREAD_SLAB 0x08000000 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
#define PF_BORROWED_MM 0x00200000 /* I am a kthread doing use_mm */
#define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00400000 /* randomize virtual address space */
#define PF_SWAPWRITE 0x00800000 /* Allowed to write to swap */
#define PF_SPREAD_PAGE 0x01000000 /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
#define PF_SPREAD_SLAB 0x02000000 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
#define PF_MEMPOLICY 0x10000000 /* Non-default NUMA mempolicy */
/*