jbd: use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_SYNC

When you are going to be submitting several sync writes, we want to
give the IO scheduler a chance to merge some of them. Instead of
using the implicitly unplugging WRITE_SYNC variant, use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG
and rely on sync_buffer() doing the unplug when someone does a
wait_on_buffer()/lock_buffer().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index f8077b9c8981..a8e8513a78a9 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -351,8 +351,13 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
         spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
         commit_transaction->t_state = T_LOCKED;
 
+        /*
+         * Use plugged writes here, since we want to submit several before
+         * we unplug the device. We don't do explicit unplugging in here,
+         * instead we rely on sync_buffer() doing the unplug for us.
+         */
         if (commit_transaction->t_synchronous_commit)
-                write_op = WRITE_SYNC;
+                write_op = WRITE_SYNC_PLUG;
         spin_lock(&commit_transaction->t_handle_lock);
         while (commit_transaction->t_updates) {
                 DEFINE_WAIT(wait);