Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index dd200025af85..3422ba61d86d 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -112,8 +112,13 @@ restart:
         mutex_unlock(&mutex);
 }
 
+/*
+ * sync everything.  Start out by waking pdflush, because that writes back
+ * all queues in parallel.
+ */
 SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sync)
 {
+        wakeup_pdflush(0);
         sync_filesystems(0);
         sync_filesystems(1);
         if (unlikely(laptop_mode))