Hi Jens, Today's linux-next merge of the block tree got a conflict in fs/block_dev.c between commit b8af67e2681c693a21f3933e3bdfce4cf66596d3 ("fs/block_dev.c: fix performance regression in O_DIRECT|O_SYNC writes to block devices") from Linus' tree and commit fbd9b09a177a481eda256447c881f014f29034fe ("blkdev: generalize flags for blkdev_issue_fn functions") from the block tree. I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix for a while. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx diff --cc fs/block_dev.c index 6dcee88,dd76930..0000000 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@@ -406,23 -406,17 +406,24 @@@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { - struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host); + struct inode *bd_inode = filp->f_mapping->host; + struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(bd_inode); int error; - error = sync_blockdev(bdev); - if (error) - return error; - + /* + * There is no need to serialise calls to blkdev_issue_flush with + * i_mutex and doing so causes performance issues with concurrent + * O_SYNC writers to a block device. + */ + mutex_unlock(&bd_inode->i_mutex); + - error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, NULL); + error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL, + (BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT)); if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP) error = 0; + + mutex_lock(&bd_inode->i_mutex); + return error; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_fsync); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html