Commit 6b17d902 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o

ext4: avoid issuing unnecessary barriers

We don't to issue an I/O barrier on an error or if we force commit
because we are doing data journaling.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent 1032988c
......@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
ret = flush_aio_dio_completed_IO(inode);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
return ret;
/*
* data=writeback:
* The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
......@@ -79,10 +79,8 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
* (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
* safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
*/
if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
ret = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
goto out;
}
if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
return ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
if (!journal)
ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
......
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