From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
In the iomap buffered I/O path, there is no risk of exposing stale data
because we always allocate unwritten extents for new allocated blocks,
the extent changes to written only when the I/O is completed. Therefore,
we do not need to order data in this mode.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
index 0c77697d5e90..9dca10027032 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
@@ -467,6 +467,14 @@ static inline int ext4_should_journal_data(struct inode *inode)
static inline int ext4_should_order_data(struct inode *inode)
{
+ /*
+ * There is no need to order data for inodes with iomap buffered I/O
+ * path since it always allocate unwritten extents for new allocated
+ * blocks and have no risk of stale data.
+ */
+ if (ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_BUFFERED_IOMAP))
+ return 0;
+
return ext4_inode_journal_mode(inode) & EXT4_INODE_ORDERED_DATA_MODE;
}
--
2.46.1
