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Dave Chinner committed cf53e99d192
xfs: Don't use xfs_buf_iowait in the delwri buffer code For the special case of delwri buffer submission and waiting, we don't need to issue IO synchronously at all. The second pass to call xfs_buf_iowait() can be replaced with blocking on xfs_buf_lock() - the buffer will be unlocked when the async IO is complete. This formalises a sane the method of waiting for async IO - take an extra reference, submit the IO, call xfs_buf_lock() when you want to wait for IO completion. i.e.: bp = xfs_buf_find(); xfs_buf_hold(bp); bp->b_flags |= XBF_ASYNC; xfs_buf_iosubmit(bp); xfs_buf_lock(bp) error = bp->b_error; .... xfs_buf_relse(bp); While this is somewhat racy for gathering IO errors, none of the code that calls xfs_buf_delwri_submit() will race against other users of the buffers being submitted. Even if they do, we don't really care if the error is detected by the delwri code or the user we raced against. Either way, the error will be detected and handled. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>