f2fs: add nobarrier mount option
This patch adds a mount option, nobarrier, in f2fs.
The assumption in here is that file system keeps the IO ordering, but
doesn't care about cache flushes inside the storages.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index c77c667..482313d 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -139,7 +139,10 @@
/* change META to META_FLUSH in the checkpoint procedure */
if (type >= META_FLUSH) {
io->fio.type = META_FLUSH;
- io->fio.rw = WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO;
+ if (test_opt(sbi, NOBARRIER))
+ io->fio.rw = WRITE_FLUSH | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO;
+ else
+ io->fio.rw = WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO;
}
__submit_merged_bio(io);
up_write(&io->io_rwsem);