[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 4/7] gfs2: Make flush bios explicitely sync

[Jan Kara]

Commit b685d3d65ac7 "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_{FUA|PREFLUSH|...}
definitions.  generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA and
REQ_PREFLUSH flags from a bio when the storage doesn't report volatile
write cache and thus write effectively becomes asynchronous which can
lead to performance regressions

Fix the problem by making sure all bios which are synchronous are
properly marked with REQ_SYNC.

Fixes: b685d3d65ac791406e0dfd8779cc9b3707fea5a3
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
CC: cluster-devel at redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
---
 fs/gfs2/log.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c
index f865b96374df..d2955daf17a4 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/log.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static void log_write_header(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, u32 flags)
 	struct gfs2_log_header *lh;
 	unsigned int tail;
 	u32 hash;
-	int op_flags = REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_META;
+	int op_flags = REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_META | REQ_SYNC;
 	struct page *page = mempool_alloc(gfs2_page_pool, GFP_NOIO);
 	enum gfs2_freeze_state state = atomic_read(&sdp->sd_freeze_state);
 	lh = page_address(page);
-- 
2.12.0