On Mon 16-05-22 09:47:10, Stefan Roesch wrote: > This introduces an optimization for the update time flag and async > buffered writes. While an update of the file modification time is > pending and is handled by the workers, concurrent writes do not need > to wait for this time update to complete. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxx> > --- > fs/inode.c | 1 + > include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c > index 1d0b02763e98..fd18b2c1b7c4 100644 > --- a/fs/inode.c > +++ b/fs/inode.c > @@ -2091,6 +2091,7 @@ static int do_file_update_time(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, > return 0; > > ret = inode_update_time(inode, now, sync_mode); > + inode->i_flags &= ~S_PENDING_TIME; So what protects this update of inode->i_flags? Usually we use inode->i_rwsem for that but not all file_update_time() callers hold it... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR