xfs: avoid synchronous transactions when deleting attr blocks

Currently xfs_attr_inactive causes a synchronous transactions if we are
removing a file that has any extents allocated to the attribute fork, and
thus makes XFS extremely slow at removing files with out of line extended
attributes. The code looks a like a relict from the days before the busy
extent list, but with the busy extent list we avoid reusing data and attr
extents that have been freed but not commited yet, so this code is just
as superflous as the synchronous transactions for data blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
index 8f0f658..3dd5c9c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -823,18 +823,6 @@ xfs_attr_inactive(xfs_inode_t *dp)
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
 
-	/*
-	 * Signal synchronous inactive transactions unless this is a
-	 * synchronous mount filesystem in which case we know that we're here
-	 * because we've been called out of xfs_inactive which means that the
-	 * last reference is gone and the unlink transaction has already hit
-	 * the disk so async inactive transactions are safe.
-	 */
-	if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_WSYNC)) {
-		if (dp->i_d.di_anextents > 0)
-			xfs_trans_set_sync(trans);
-	}
-
 	error = xfs_itruncate_extents(&trans, dp, XFS_ATTR_FORK, 0);
 	if (error)
 		goto out;