From 9e9ad5f408889db6038a59b38ede29ff1ba9ef2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:28:08 +0300 Subject: fs/ufs: get rid of write_super This patch makes UFS stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out. The way we implement this is that we schedule a delay job instead relying on 's_dirt' and '->write_super()'. The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every 5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use '->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove it together with the kernel thread. Tested using fsstress from the LTP project. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h') diff --git a/fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h b/fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h index 8aba544f9fad..0cbd5d340b67 100644 --- a/fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h +++ b/fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include typedef __u64 __bitwise __fs64; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b