0e393a9a8f
Christoph Hellwig noticed that we were doing some unnecessary work in orangefs_flush: orangefs_flush just writes out data on every close(2) call. There is no need to change anything about the dirty state, especially as orangefs doesn't treat I_DIRTY_TIMES special in any way. The code seems to come from partially open coding vfs_fsync. He sent in a patch with the above commit message and also a patch that was a reversion of another Orangefs patch I had sent upstream a while ago. I had to fix his reversion patch so that it would compile which caused his "don't mess with I_DIRTY_TIMES" patch to fail to apply. So here I have just remade his patch and applied it after the fixed reversion patch. Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.