jbd: use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_SYNC When you are going to be submitting several sync writes, we want to give the IO scheduler a chance to merge some of them. Instead of using the implicitly unplugging WRITE_SYNC variant, use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG and rely on sync_buffer() doing the unplug when someone does a wait_on_buffer()/lock_buffer(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c index f8077b9..a8e8513 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -351,8 +351,13 @@ spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); commit_transaction->t_state = T_LOCKED; + /* + * Use plugged writes here, since we want to submit several before + * we unplug the device. We don't do explicit unplugging in here, + * instead we rely on sync_buffer() doing the unplug for us. + */ if (commit_transaction->t_synchronous_commit) - write_op = WRITE_SYNC; + write_op = WRITE_SYNC_PLUG; spin_lock(&commit_transaction->t_handle_lock); while (commit_transaction->t_updates) { DEFINE_WAIT(wait);