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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 5324a38d848d..ab3e8357929d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4455,7 +4455,12 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) return -EIO; } - if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) + /* + * No need to force transaction in WB_SYNC_NONE mode. Also + * ext4_sync_fs() will force the commit after everything is + * written. + */ + if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_sync) return 0; err = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb); @@ -4465,7 +4470,11 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) err = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc, 0); if (err) return err; - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + /* + * sync(2) will flush the whole buffer cache. No need to do + * it here separately for each inode. + */ + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL && !wbc->for_sync) sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh); if (buffer_req(iloc.bh) && !buffer_uptodate(iloc.bh)) { EXT4_ERROR_INODE_BLOCK(inode, iloc.bh->b_blocknr, |