Re: [PATCH] Sync only the requested range in msync

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:02:41PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> [untested.  posted because it keeps coming up at lsfmm/collab]
> 
> msync() currently syncs more than POSIX requires or BSD or Solaris
> implement.  It is supposed to be equivalent to fdatasync(), not fsync(),
> and it is only supposed to sync the portion of the file that overlaps
> the range passed to msync.
> 
> If the VMA is non-linear, fall back to syncing the entire file, but we
> still optimise to only fdatasync() the entire file, not the full fsync().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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