[PATCH v3] block: remove plugging at buffered write time

[Fengguang Wu]

Buffered write(2) is not directly tied to IO, so it's not suitable to
handle plug in generic_file_aio_write().

Note that plugging for O_SYNC writes is also removed. The user may pass
arbitrary @size arguments, which may be much larger than the preferable
I/O size, or may cross extent/device boundaries. Let the lower layers
handle the plugging. The plugging code here actually turns them into
no-ops.

CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Li Shaohua <shli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/direct-io.c |    5 +++++
 mm/filemap.c   |    7 -------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- linux-next.orig/mm/filemap.c	2012-04-25 12:16:57.496149458 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/filemap.c	2012-04-25 12:17:00.116149521 +0800
@@ -2605,13 +2601,11 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
-	struct blk_plug plug;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
@@ -2622,7 +2616,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
 		if (err < 0 && ret > 0)
 			ret = err;
 	}
-	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write);
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