It is not necessary to write block devices twice. The reason why we first did flush and then proper sync is that for_each_bdev() { write_bdev() wait_for_completion() } is much slower than for_each_bdev() write_bdev() for_each_bdev() wait_for_completion() when there is bigger amount of data. But as is seen in the above, there's no real need to scan pages and submit them twice. We just need to separate the submission and waiting part. This patch does that. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/sync.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index ccaaa1b..d8b9dd1 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -126,14 +126,14 @@ static void sync_all_bdevs(int wait) iput(old_inode); } -static void flush_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg) +static void fdatawrite_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg) { - __sync_blockdev(bdev, 0); + filemap_fdatawrite(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping); } -static void sync_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg) +static void fdatawait_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg) { - sync_blockdev(bdev); + filemap_fdatawait(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping); } /* @@ -147,10 +147,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sync) wakeup_flusher_threads(0, WB_REASON_SYNC); iterate_supers(writeback_inodes_one_sb, NULL); iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &nowait); - iterate_bdevs(flush_one_bdev, NULL); iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, NULL); iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &wait); - iterate_bdevs(sync_one_bdev, NULL); + iterate_bdevs(fdatawrite_one_bdev, NULL); + iterate_bdevs(fdatawait_one_bdev, NULL); if (unlikely(laptop_mode)) laptop_sync_completion(); return 0; -- 1.7.1 -- 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