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ext4: disable synchronous transaction batching if max_batch_time==0

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The mount manpage says of the max_batch_time option,

	This optimization can be turned off entirely
	by setting max_batch_time to 0.

But the code doesn't do that.  So fix the code to do
that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Eric Sandeen 2014-07-05 19:18:22 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 94d4c066a4
commit 5dd214248f
2 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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fs/ext4/super.c
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@ -1525,8 +1525,6 @@ static int handle_mount_opt(struct super_block *sb, char *opt, int token,
arg = JBD2_DEFAULT_MAX_COMMIT_AGE;
sbi->s_commit_interval = HZ * arg;
} else if (token == Opt_max_batch_time) {
if (arg == 0)
arg = EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME;
sbi->s_max_batch_time = arg;
} else if (token == Opt_min_batch_time) {
sbi->s_min_batch_time = arg;

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fs/jbd2/transaction.c
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@ -1588,9 +1588,12 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
* to perform a synchronous write. We do this to detect the
* case where a single process is doing a stream of sync
* writes. No point in waiting for joiners in that case.
*
* Setting max_batch_time to 0 disables this completely.
*/
pid = current->pid;
if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid) {
if (handle->h_sync && journal->j_last_sync_writer != pid &&
journal->j_max_batch_time) {
u64 commit_time, trans_time;
journal->j_last_sync_writer = pid;