From b31dc66a54ad986b6b73bdc49c8efc17cbad1833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:26:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async, and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ, this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling. Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync by using WRITE_SYNC instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- mm/msync.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/msync.c') diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c index bc6c9537636..d083544df21 100644 --- a/mm/msync.c +++ b/mm/msync.c @@ -170,8 +170,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags) * just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end. */ down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); - if (flags & MS_SYNC) - current->flags |= PF_SYNCWRITE; vma = find_vma(current->mm, start); if (!vma) { error = -ENOMEM; @@ -228,7 +226,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags) } } while (vma && !done); out_unlock: - current->flags &= ~PF_SYNCWRITE; up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); out: return error; -- cgit v1.2.3