linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 27/94] ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch

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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:48:32 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	"Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 27/94] ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching
 if max_batch_time==0

3.2.62-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

commit 5dd214248f94d430d70e9230bda72f2654ac88a8 upstream.

The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,

	This optimization can be turned off entirely
	by setting max_batch_time to 0.

But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: option parsing looks different]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c       | 2 --
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1663,8 +1663,6 @@ static int parse_options(char *options,
 				return 0;
 			if (option < 0)
 				return 0;
-			if (option == 0)
-				option = EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME;
 			sbi->s_max_batch_time = option;
 			break;
 		case Opt_min_batch_time:
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1388,9 +1388,12 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 	 * to perform a synchronous write.  We do this to detect the
 	 * case where a single process is doing a stream of sync
 	 * writes.  No point in waiting for joiners in that case.
+	 *
+	 * Setting max_batch_time to 0 disables this completely.
 	 */
 	pid = current->pid;
-	if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) {
+	if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid &&
+	    journal->j_max_batch_time) {
 		u64 commit_time, trans_time;
 
 		journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid;

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