Re: [PATCH] Fix regression in O_DIRECT|O_SYNC writes to blockdevices

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi,

> Actually you can just drop this call entirely.  sync_blockdev is an
> overcomplicated alias for filemap_write_and_wait on the  block device
> inode, which is exactl what we did just before calling into ->fsync
> 
> It might be worth to still drop i_mutex for the cache flush, though.

Thanks for the feedback Jan + Christoph. New patch on the way.

Anton
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