On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:29:34AM -0700, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote: > Your patch looks good to me, in that it does hit all the bdevs with > both WB_SYNC_NONE and SYNC_ALL. However, I still say that the call to > wakeup_flusher_threads() in sys_sync() is superfluous, at least as > long as writeback_inodes_sb() waits for completion of the work item > that it enqueues. Commit 3beab0b42413e83a7907db7176b54c840fc75a81 "sys_sync(): fix 16% performance regression in ffsb create_4k test" suggests we need the wakeup_flusher_threads. We might be able to get rid of the writeback_inodes_sb call if we're lucky. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
