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Commit 0e77a07f authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'for-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 

* 'for-2.6.26' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Properly notify block layer of sync writes
  block: Fix the starving writes bug in the anticipatory IO scheduler
parents 23c0e4a2 18ce3751

block/as-iosched.c

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@@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ static void as_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) 
	}



	if (ad->changed_batch && ad->nr_dispatched == 1) {

		ad->current_batch_expires = jiffies +

					ad->batch_expire[ad->batch_data_dir];

		kblockd_schedule_work(&ad->antic_work);

		ad->changed_batch = 0;

fs/buffer.c

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@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ static int fsync_buffers_list(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *list) 
				 * contents - it is a noop if I/O is still in

				 * flight on potentially older contents.

				 */

				ll_rw_block(SWRITE, 1, &bh);

				ll_rw_block(SWRITE_SYNC, 1, &bh);

				brelse(bh);

				spin_lock(lock);

			}
@@ -2940,15 +2940,18 @@ void ll_rw_block(int rw, int nr, struct buffer_head *bhs[]) 
	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {

		struct buffer_head *bh = bhs[i];



		if (rw == SWRITE)

		if (rw == SWRITE || rw == SWRITE_SYNC)

			lock_buffer(bh);

		else if (test_set_buffer_locked(bh))

			continue;



		if (rw == WRITE || rw == SWRITE) {

		if (rw == WRITE || rw == SWRITE || rw == SWRITE_SYNC) {

			if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {

				bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;

				get_bh(bh);

				if (rw == SWRITE_SYNC)

					submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC, bh);

				else

					submit_bh(WRITE, bh);

				continue;

			}
@@ -2978,7 +2981,7 @@ int sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh) 
	if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {

		get_bh(bh);

		bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;

		ret = submit_bh(WRITE, bh);

		ret = submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC, bh);

		wait_on_buffer(bh);

		if (buffer_eopnotsupp(bh)) {

			clear_buffer_eopnotsupp(bh);

include/linux/fs.h

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@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable; 
#define READ_SYNC	(READ | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC))

#define READ_META	(READ | (1 << BIO_RW_META))

#define WRITE_SYNC	(WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC))

#define SWRITE_SYNC	(SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC))

#define WRITE_BARRIER	((1 << BIO_RW) | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))



#define SEL_IN		1