Set/reset fsync dependency of fsync on journalling thread. This allows CFQ to dispatch IO from journalling thread in fsync's time slice. Otherwise, lots of cfq queue idling takes place if fsync is running in a separate cgroup and journalling thread is running in root group. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/fsync.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/fsync.c b/fs/ext3/fsync.c index 09b13bb..1e8de9c 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/fsync.c +++ b/fs/ext3/fsync.c @@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync) !journal_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal, commit_tid)) needs_barrier = 1; log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid); + blk_set_depends_on_task(journal->j_dev->bd_disk->queue, + journal->j_task); ret = log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid); + blk_reset_depends_on_task(journal->j_dev->bd_disk->queue); /* * In case we didn't commit a transaction, we have to flush -- 1.7.4.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
