Re: [patch] speed up ext3 synchronous mounts

[Ed Sweetman]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:07, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Again, we don't need to sync indirects as we dirty them because
> > we run a commit if IS_SYNC(inode) prior to returning to the
> > caller of write(2).
> 
> Will this help synchronous NFS writes, at least a little? I have slow
> write performance on "sync" NFSv3 exports (ext3 underneath, you guessed
> it), kernel 2.4.19-pre3-ac4 (not really surprising, sync is slow ;-). Is
> it worth a try?

if you look at the source.  that kernel doesn't need the patch. Seems to
have already been applied since ac1

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