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Hi Chris. I think it is needed to call mark_inode_dirty() when file size expands in order to flush metadata updates to HDD through sync() syscall or background_writeout(). Thanks. Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc3.org/fs/btrfs/file.c linux-2.6.29-rc3/fs/btrfs/file.c --- linux-2.6.29-rc3.org/fs/btrfs/file.c 2009-02-02

Hi. In ocfs2, fdatasync and fsync are identical. I think fdatasync should skip committing transaction when inode->i_state is set just I_DIRTY_SYNC and this indicates only atime or/and mtime updates. Following patch improves fdatasync throughput. #sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=300000 --test=fileio --file-block-size=4K --file-total-size=16G --file-test-mode=rndwr --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run Results: -2.6.30-rc8 Test execution...

Hi. In btrfs, fdatasync and fsync are identical. I think fdatasync should skip committing transaction when inode->i_state is set just I_DIRTY_SYNC and this indicates only atime or/and mtime updates. Following patch improves fdatasync throughput. #sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=10000 --test=fileio --file-block-size=4K --file-total-size=16G --file-test-mode=rndwr --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run Results: -2.6.30-rc8 Test executio...

i_alloc_sem has always been a bit of an odd "lock". It''s the only remaining rw_semaphore that can be released by a different thread than the one that locked it, and it''s use case in the core direct I/O code is more like a counter given that the writers already have external serialization. This series removes it in favour of a simpler counter scheme, thus getting rid

All, Please review the patches backported to 1.4 from mainline. Sunil