linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:35:40 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, hch@....de,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>,
	Felix Blyakher <felixb@....com>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@...tab.net>,
	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after
	writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode

> +int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count)
> +{
> +	if (!(file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && !IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host))
> +		return 0;
> +	return generic_sync_file(file, file->f_path.dentry, pos,
> +				 pos + count - 1,
> +				 SYNC_SUBMIT_DATA | SYNC_WAIT_DATA);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_write_sync);

>  
> +/* Flags for generic_sync_file */
> +#define SYNC_INODE		1
> +#define SYNC_SUBMIT_DATA	2
> +#define SYNC_WAIT_DATA		4

When I think about this more I really hate the latter two flags.
There's really no reason to just do only either the submit or wait.
I'd say kill the flags for now and just implement generic_write_sync
as:

int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count)
{
	if (!(file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && !IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host))
		return 0;
	return vfs_fsync_range(file, file->f_path.dentry, pos,
			       pos + count - 1, 1);
}

and we can look into replacing the datasync flag with something more
meaningfull later through the whole fsync stack.
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