linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/6] jbd2: Issue cache flush after checkpointing even with internal journal

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Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:58:12 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] jbd2: Issue cache flush after checkpointing even
 with internal journal

On Thu 09-02-12 00:26:11, Ted Tso wrote:
> One more thought.   I wonder if we should be trying to call a version of
> journal_cleanup_tail after we do a commit, since at that point we will
> have done a flush so updating the journal superblock should be "cheap".
  Yes. That is in patch 6/6 ;). I just put it in a separate patch because
the first patch is a correctness fix which was complex enough and this is
just an optional optimization...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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