From 41f2df62894bfcd3bf868af916b32b90aa7168dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:54:16 +0200 Subject: block: BARRIER request should imply SYNC A barrier request should by defintion have priority in get_request and let the queue be unplugged immediately as it's blocking all forward progress due to the queue draining. Most filesystems already get this implicitly by the way how submit_bh treats the buffer_ordered flag, and gfs2 sets it explicitly. But btrfs and XFS are still forgetting to set the flag, as is blkdev_issue_flush and some places in DM/MD. For XFS on metadata heavy workloads this gives a consistent speedup in the 2-3% range. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/fs.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 68ca1b0..5988788 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { * SWRITE_SYNC * SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG Like WRITE_SYNC/WRITE_SYNC_PLUG, but locks the buffer. * See SWRITE. - * WRITE_BARRIER Like WRITE, but tells the block layer that all + * WRITE_BARRIER Like WRITE_SYNC, but tells the block layer that all * previously submitted writes must be safely on storage * before this one is started. Also guarantees that when * this write is complete, it itself is also safely on @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { #define SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG \ (SWRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNCIO) | (1 << BIO_RW_NOIDLE)) #define SWRITE_SYNC (SWRITE_SYNC_PLUG | (1 << BIO_RW_UNPLUG)) -#define WRITE_BARRIER (WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER)) +#define WRITE_BARRIER (WRITE_SYNC | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER)) /* * These aren't really reads or writes, they pass down information about -- cgit v1.1