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author | Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> | 2012-07-12 16:28:08 +0300 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-07-22 23:58:16 +0400 |
commit | 9e9ad5f408889db6038a59b38ede29ff1ba9ef2f (patch) | |
tree | 1ceddb870378c5cd272959a54c18ed5909291d44 /fs/sync.c | |
parent | 7bd54ef722e9938768f524677be0ac4985d8473a (diff) |
fs/ufs: get rid of write_super
This patch makes UFS stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The way we implement this is that we schedule a delay job instead relying on
's_dirt' and '->write_super()'.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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