We submit outstanding IO in ext4_bio_write_page() if we find a buffer we are not going to write. This is however pointless because we already handle submission of previous IO in case we detect newly added buffer head is discontiguous. So just delete the pointless IO submission call. Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/page-io.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c index 2bdfb8a046d9..beaec6d81074 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c @@ -489,8 +489,6 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io, redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page); keep_towrite = true; } - if (io->io_bio) - ext4_io_submit(io); continue; } if (buffer_new(bh)) -- 2.35.3