Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only mode

--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h

@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ int mingw_getpagesize(void);
 #define getpagesize mingw_getpagesize
 #endif
 
+int win32_fsync_no_flush(int fd);
+#define fsync_no_flush win32_fsync_no_flush
+
 struct rlimit {
 	unsigned int rlim_cur;
 };

diff --git a/compat/win32/flush.c b/compat/win32/flush.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..75324c24ee7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/win32/flush.c

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#include "../../git-compat-util.h"
+#include <winternl.h>
+#include "lazyload.h"
+
+int win32_fsync_no_flush(int fd)
+{
+       IO_STATUS_BLOCK io_status;
+
+#define FLUSH_FLAGS_FILE_DATA_ONLY 1
+
+       DECLARE_PROC_ADDR(ntdll.dll, NTSTATUS, NtFlushBuffersFileEx,
+			 HANDLE FileHandle, ULONG Flags, PVOID Parameters, ULONG ParameterSize,
+			 PIO_STATUS_BLOCK IoStatusBlock);
+
+       if (!INIT_PROC_ADDR(NtFlushBuffersFileEx)) {
+		errno = ENOSYS;
+		return -1;
+       }

+       memset(&io_status, 0, sizeof(io_status));
+       if (NtFlushBuffersFileEx((HANDLE)_get_osfhandle(fd), FLUSH_FLAGS_FILE_DATA_ONLY,
+				NULL, 0, &io_status)) {
+		errno = EINVAL;
+		return -1;
+       }
+
+       return 0;
+}

diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 36e12119d76..1c5f2c87791 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c

@@ -546,6 +546,62 @@ int xmkstemp_mode(char *filename_template, int mode)
 	return fd;
 }
 
+int git_fsync(int fd, enum fsync_action action)
+{
+	switch (action) {
+	case FSYNC_WRITEOUT_ONLY:
+
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+		/*
+		 * on macOS, fsync just causes filesystem cache writeback but does not
+		 * flush hardware caches.
+		 */
+		return fsync(fd);

+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE
+		/*
+		 * On linux 2.6.17 and above, sync_file_range is the way to issue
+		 * a writeback without a hardware flush. An offset of 0 and size of 0
+		 * indicates writeout of the entire file and the wait flags ensure that all
+		 * dirty data is written to the disk (potentially in a disk-side cache)
+		 * before we continue.
+		 */
+
+		return sync_file_range(fd, 0, 0, SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE |
+						 SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE |
+						 SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef fsync_no_flush
+		return fsync_no_flush(fd);
+#endif
+
+		errno = ENOSYS;
+		return -1;
+
+	case FSYNC_HARDWARE_FLUSH:
+		/*
+		 * On some platforms fsync may return EINTR. Try again in this
+		 * case, since callers asking for a hardware flush may die if
+		 * this function returns an error.
+		 */
+		for (;;) {
+			int err;
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+			err = fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC);
+#else
+			err = fsync(fd);
+#endif
+			if (err >= 0 || errno != EINTR)
+				return err;
+		}
+
+	default:
+		BUG("unexpected git_fsync(%d) call", action);
+	}
+}
+
 static int warn_if_unremovable(const char *op, const char *file, int rc)
 {
 	int err;

diff --git a/write-or-die.c b/write-or-die.c
index 0b1ec8190b6..0702acdd5e8 100644
--- a/write-or-die.c
+++ b/write-or-die.c

@@ -57,10 +57,12 @@ void fprintf_or_die(FILE *f, const char *fmt, ...)
 
 void fsync_or_die(int fd, const char *msg)
 {
-	while (fsync(fd) < 0) {
-		if (errno != EINTR)
-			die_errno("fsync error on '%s'", msg);
-	}
+	if (fsync_method == FSYNC_METHOD_WRITEOUT_ONLY &&
+	    git_fsync(fd, FSYNC_WRITEOUT_ONLY) >= 0)
+		return;
+
+	if (git_fsync(fd, FSYNC_HARDWARE_FLUSH) < 0)
+		die_errno("fsync error on '%s'", msg);
 }
 
 void write_or_die(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)

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