In general, fsync has a larger overhead than fdatasync. And since the dio option is for data, it seems like fdatasync is enough. So this patch changes it to fdatasync which has little load relatively. Signed-off-by: Huijin Park <huijin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 1518a6423279..6c7ce8be8c0c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void __loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo, bool dio) return; /* flush dirty pages before changing direct IO */ - vfs_fsync(file, 0); + vfs_fsync(file, 1); /* * The flag of LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO is handled similarly with -- 2.17.1
