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vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:45:33 +0000 (16:45 +0200)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:58:53 +0000 (23:58 +0400)
commit00782aa4befd49c70d779d16318c0844bfa0387f
tree59124b824744aaf0657c57c986ed77c42d6fc748
parent07accec38ec014f0b56e7b7675c19ee588b65ed9
vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices

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@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/sync.c