linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext3,4:fdatasync should skip metadata writeout

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:47:27 +0900
From:	Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext3,4:fdatasync should skip metadata writeout

Hi.
Currently fdatasync is identical to fsync in ext3,4.
I think fdatasync should skip journal flush in data=ordered and data=writeback mode
because this syscall is not required to synchronize the metadata.

My patch as below is similar to the approach of GFS2's fsync code(gfs2_fsync).

Thanks.

Signed-off-by :Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@....ntt.co.jp>

diff -Nrup linux-2.6.24-rc2.org/fs/ext3/fsync.c linux-2.6.24-rc2/fs/ext3/fsync.c
--- linux-2.6.24-rc2.org/fs/ext3/fsync.c	2007-11-07 06:57:46.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/fs/ext3/fsync.c	2007-11-15 17:50:24.000000000 +0900
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, s
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (datasync)
+		goto out;	
+
 	/*
 	* The VFS has written the file data.  If the inode is unaltered
 	* then we need not start a commit.
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.24-rc2.org/fs/ext4/fsync.c linux-2.6.24-rc2/fs/ext4/fsync.c
--- linux-2.6.24-rc2.org/fs/ext4/fsync.c	2007-11-07 06:57:46.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc2/fs/ext4/fsync.c	2007-11-15 17:50:54.000000000 +0900
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file * file, s
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (datasync)
+		goto out;
+
 	/*
 	* The VFS has written the file data.  If the inode is unaltered
 	* then we need not start a commit.
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