Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 2 authors, 2021-05-19

Re: [PATCH 2/8] block: move sync_blockdev from __blkdev_put to blkdev_put

From: Ming Lei <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-19 09:32:23
Also in: linux-block, linux-s390, linux-scsi

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 08:18:50AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Do the early unlocked syncing even earlier to move more code out of
the recursive path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/block_dev.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index d053510d2f6a..95fde785dae7 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1553,16 +1553,6 @@ static void __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
 	struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
 	struct block_device *victim = NULL;
 
-	/*
-	 * Sync early if it looks like we're the last one.  If someone else
-	 * opens the block device between now and the decrement of bd_openers
-	 * then we did a sync that we didn't need to, but that's not the end
-	 * of the world and we want to avoid long (could be several minute)
-	 * syncs while holding the mutex.
-	 */
-	if (bdev->bd_openers == 1)
-		sync_blockdev(bdev);
-
 	mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, for_part);
 	if (for_part)
 		bdev->bd_part_count--;
@@ -1589,6 +1579,16 @@ void blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode)
 {
 	struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
 
+	/*
+	 * Sync early if it looks like we're the last one.  If someone else
+	 * opens the block device between now and the decrement of bd_openers
+	 * then we did a sync that we didn't need to, but that's not the end
+	 * of the world and we want to avoid long (could be several minute)
+	 * syncs while holding the mutex.
+	 */
+	if (bdev->bd_openers == 1)
+		sync_blockdev(bdev);
+
The early sync on disk is killed in case of closing partition, but there
shouldn't much dirty data on disk, so looks fine:

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <redacted>

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Ming
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