Re: [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs

[Eric Sandeen]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> This looks sane to me, and it does fix the below testcase.
>>
>> Care to formally propose it?
> 
> Can we confirm what is being proposed?  From following this thread, I
> think what folks are suggesting is:
> 
> 1)  Revert the current "ext3/4: wait on all pending ocmmits in ext3/4_sync_fs"
> 
> 2)  Apply Jan's patch "jbd[2]: Fix return value of journal_start_commit()"

The above seems like the right plan to me.  It should address the
kernel.org bug about IO on idle partitions.

> 3)  Also apply Jan's patch "jbd2: Skip commit of a transaction without
> any buffers" since it appears to be a good optimization (although it's
> not clear it would happen once we revert (1), above.

Maybe not yet, it could probably use more testing/review/soak.

-Eric

>     	     	   	       	  	      - Ted
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