@@ -520,7 +520,6 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
struct block_device *bdev = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
struct inode *bd_inode = bdev->bd_inode;
loff_t size = bdev_nr_bytes(bdev);
- struct blk_plug plug;
size_t shorted = 0;
ssize_t ret;
@@ -545,12 +544,10 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
iov_iter_truncate(from, size);
}
- blk_start_plug(&plug);
ret = __generic_file_write_iter(iocb, from);
if (ret > 0)
ret = generic_write_sync(iocb, ret);
iov_iter_reexpand(from, iov_iter_count(from) + shorted);
- blk_finish_plug(&plug);
return ret;
}
Remove the no needed plug in blkdev_write_iter. For direct I/O that issues more than a single I/O, the plug is already done in __blkdev_direct_IO, and for synchronous buffered writes, the plug is done in writeback_inodes_wb / wb_writeback, while for the other cases a plug doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --- block/fops.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)