[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 4/7] sysv: don't flush page immediately for DIRSYNC directories

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Jan 10 08:24:28 UTC 2023


On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 09:19:22PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 05:56:42PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We do not need to writeout modified directory blocks immediately when
> > modifying them while the page is locked. It is enough to do the flush
> > somewhat later which has the added benefit that inode times can be
> > flushed as well. It also allows us to stop depending on
> > write_one_page() function.
> 
> Similar concerns to the minix patch here ... missing assignments to
> 'err'.

Fixed.



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