[PATCH 05/18] xfs: don't use vfs writeback for pure metadata modifications

[Dave Chinner]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:42:48PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As mentioned before I think xfs_trans_ichgtime should go into
> xfs_trans_inode.c/xfs_trans.h.  Instead of keeping xfs_ichgtime around
> for one caller it might be easier to just opencode it similar to
> what other filesystems do, e.g. just:
> 
> 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
> 	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
> 
> there's really no point in doing the check for an actual time change
> first as it's a relatively rare operation.

Ok. I'll respin it to do this.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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