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Commit 9e80d407 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ext3: Avoid starting a transaction in writepage when not necessary



We don't have to start a transaction in writepage() when all the blocks
are a properly allocated. Even in ordered mode either the data has been
written via write() and they are thus already added to transaction's list
or the data was written via mmap and then it's random in which transaction
they get written anyway.

This should help VM to pageout dirty memory without blocking on transaction
commits.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0384e295
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