Thread (47 messages) 47 messages, 8 authors, 2010-09-06

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  1. Posted Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
  2. Acked-by Hugh Dickins
  3. Tested-by Nigel Cunningham

[PATCH 28/30] swap: do not send discards as barriers

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2010-08-25 15:54:07
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-raid, linux-scsi, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, memory management - swap, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Chris Li, Kairui Song, Linus Torvalds

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

The swap code already uses synchronous discards, no need to add I/O barriers.

tj: superflous newlines removed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |    9 +++------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 1f3f9c5..68cda16 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ static int discard_swap(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 	nr_blocks = ((sector_t)se->nr_pages - 1) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
 	if (nr_blocks) {
 		err = blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
-				nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL,
-				BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER);
+				nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 		cond_resched();
@@ -153,8 +152,7 @@ static int discard_swap(struct swap_info_struct *si)
 		nr_blocks = (sector_t)se->nr_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
 
 		err = blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
-				nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL,
-				BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER);
+				nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
 		if (err)
 			break;
 
@@ -193,8 +191,7 @@ static void discard_swap_cluster(struct swap_info_struct *si,
 			start_block <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
 			nr_blocks <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 9;
 			if (blkdev_issue_discard(si->bdev, start_block,
-				    nr_blocks, GFP_NOIO, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT |
-							BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER))
+				    nr_blocks, GFP_NOIO, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT))
 				break;
 		}
 
-- 
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