This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0
to the 3.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-disable-synchronous-transaction-batching-if-max_batch_time-0.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5dd214248f94d430d70e9230bda72f2654ac88a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:18:22 -0400
Subject: ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5dd214248f94d430d70e9230bda72f2654ac88a8 upstream.
The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,
This optimization can be turned off entirely
by setting max_batch_time to 0.
But the code doesn't do that. So fix the code to do
that.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 --
fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1524,8 +1524,6 @@ static int handle_mount_opt(struct super
arg = JBD2_DEFAULT_MAX_COMMIT_AGE;
sbi->s_commit_interval = HZ * arg;
} else if (token == Opt_max_batch_time) {
- if (arg == 0)
- arg = EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME;
sbi->s_max_batch_time = arg;
} else if (token == Opt_min_batch_time) {
sbi->s_min_batch_time = arg;
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1588,9 +1588,12 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
* to perform a synchronous write. We do this to detect the
* case where a single process is doing a stream of sync
* writes. No point in waiting for joiners in that case.
+ *
+ * Setting max_batch_time to 0 disables this completely.
*/
pid = current->pid;
- if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) {
+ if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid &&
+ journal->j_max_batch_time) {
u64 commit_time, trans_time;
journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/ext4-disable-synchronous-transaction-batching-if-max_batch_time-0.patch
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