Re: [PATCH 2/9] ext4: honor the O_SYNC flag for aysnchronous direct I/O requests

Jan Kara [off-list ref] writes:

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Just to be clear, are you saying you would like me to remove the
mutex_lock/unlock pair from ext4_sync_file?  (I had already factored out
the common code between this new code path and the fsync path in my tree.)

  Yes, after some thinking I came to that conclusion. We actually need to
keep i_mutex around ext4_flush_unwritten_io() to avoid livelocks but the
rest doesn't need it. The change should be definitely a separate patch just
in case there's something subtle I missed and we need to bisect in
future... I've attached a patch for that so that blame for bugs goes my way
;) Compile tested only so far. I'll give it some more testing overnight.

Great, thanks Jan!  I'll include this in the next posting.

Cheers,
Jeff