[patch] speed up ext3 synchronous mounts

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:50:16 -0800


Again, we don't need to sync indirects as we dirty them because
we run a commit if IS_SYNC(inode) prior to returning to the
caller of write(2).

Writing a 10 meg file in 0.1 meg chunks is sped up by, err,
a factor of fifty. That's a best case.

--- linux-2.4.18-pre8/fs/ext3/inode.c Tue Feb 5 00:33:05 2002
+++ linux-akpm/fs/ext3/inode.c Wed Feb 6 23:40:48 2002
@@ -581,8 +581,6 @@ static int ext3_alloc_branch(handle_t *h

parent = nr;
}
- if (IS_SYNC(inode))
- handle->h_sync = 1;
}
if (n == num)
return 0;

-
-
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