From 2fe17c1075836b66678ed2a305fd09b6773883aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:07:43 +0100 Subject: fallocate should be a file operation Currently all filesystems except XFS implement fallocate asynchronously, while XFS forced a commit. Both of these are suboptimal - in case of O_SYNC I/O we really want our allocation on disk, especially for the !KEEP_SIZE case where we actually grow the file with user-visible zeroes. On the other hand always commiting the transaction is a bad idea for fast-path uses of fallocate like for example in recent Samba versions. Given that block allocation is a data plane operation anyway change it from an inode operation to a file operation so that we have the file structure available that lets us check for O_SYNC. This also includes moving the code around for a few of the filesystems, and remove the already unnedded S_ISDIR checks given that we only wire up fallocate for regular files. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/ext4.h') diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index 1de65f572033..0c8d97b56f34 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ extern int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, extern void ext4_ext_truncate(struct inode *); extern void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *); extern void ext4_ext_release(struct super_block *); -extern long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, +extern long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); extern int ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, ssize_t len); -- cgit v1.2.3