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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2013-02-05 15:34:17 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2013-02-05 16:00:55 +1100
commit9698df15d9efaa32d30e17ff839315cedf1e7984 (patch)
treedbbe22c79f5ef36cdf0c1ece9e743b80a3eb50b5 /super-gpt.c
parentec1b28fdc0b00b14a6550621951e58f159cb105e (diff)
Avoid using BLKFLSBUF.
Now that we use O_DIRECT for all device IO, BLKFLSBUF is not needed to ensure we get current data, and it can impose a cost if any flush-out is needed. So remove it. To be safe, add O_DIRECT to one place where it isn't currently used: when reading a bitmap. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'super-gpt.c')
-rw-r--r--super-gpt.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/super-gpt.c b/super-gpt.c
index 6244657d..8f7d4d93 100644
--- a/super-gpt.c
+++ b/super-gpt.c
@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ static int load_gpt(struct supertype *st, int fd, char *devname)
return 1;
}
- ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0); /* make sure we read current data */
-
lseek(fd, 0, 0);
if (read(fd, super, sizeof(*super)) != sizeof(*super)) {
no_read: