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Martin Brandenburg 90fc07065a orangefs: avoid fsync service operation on flush
Without this, an fsync call is sent to the server even if no data
changed.  This resulted in a rather severe (50%) performance regression
under certain metadata-heavy workloads.

In the past, everything was direct IO.  Nothing happend on a close call.
An explicit fsync call would send an fsync request to the server which
in turn fsynced the underlying file.

Now there are cached writes.  Then fsync began writing out dirty pages
in addition to making an fsync request to the server, and close began
calling fsync.

With this commit, close only writes out dirty pages, and does not make
the fsync request.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
2019-05-03 14:32:38 -04:00
arch A small number of ARM fixes 2019-04-28 10:50:57 -07:00
block bfq: update internal depth state when queue depth changes 2019-04-13 19:08:22 -06:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto crypto: lrw - Fix atomic sleep when walking skcipher 2019-04-18 22:13:46 +08:00
Documentation mm: do not boost watermarks to avoid fragmentation for the DISCONTIG memory model 2019-04-26 09:18:05 -07:00
drivers 5.1 Third RC pull request 2019-04-28 10:00:45 -07:00
fs orangefs: avoid fsync service operation on flush 2019-05-03 14:32:38 -04:00
include 5.1 Third RC pull request 2019-04-28 10:00:45 -07:00
init init: initialize jump labels before command line option parsing 2019-04-19 09:46:05 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 14:08:19 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-04-27 10:18:40 -07:00
lib lib/test_vmalloc.c: do not create cpumask_t variable on stack 2019-04-26 09:18:05 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add GCC runtime library exception text 2019-01-16 14:54:15 -07:00
mm mm/page_alloc.c: fix never set ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT flag 2019-04-26 09:18:05 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-24 16:18:59 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-03-11 08:54:01 -07:00
scripts locking/atomics: Don't assume that scripts are executable 2019-04-19 14:21:43 +02:00
security Merge branch 'for-5.1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2019-04-19 18:03:55 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - add two more pin configuration sets to quirk table 2019-04-17 10:41:38 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-24 16:18:59 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: fix spectrev1 gadgets 2019-04-16 15:38:07 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-04-12 12:49:54 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap Update Nicolas Pitre's email address 2019-04-02 18:12:44 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS LED update for 5.1-rc7. 2019-04-24 16:15:38 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.1-rc7 2019-04-28 17:04:13 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.