From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> generic/311 runs each fsync-tester unit test 4 times, and there are 20 separate tests. At least 9 of those unit tests run sync() to flush dirty data periodically. When running check-parallel, sync() can take a -long- time to run as there can be dozens of filesystems that need to be synced, not to mention sync getting hung up behind all the mount and unmounts that are also being run. This results in: Ten slowest tests - runtime in seconds: generic/311 419 This test running for a really long time. Convert the sync() calls to syncfs() so that they only try to sync the filesystem under test and not the entire system. This avoids interactions and delays with other tests and mount/unmount operations, hence allowing both the test and the overall check-parallel operation to run faster: generic/311 166s Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/fsync-tester.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/fsync-tester.c b/src/fsync-tester.c index 417187491..048cb4853 100644 --- a/src/fsync-tester.c +++ b/src/fsync-tester.c @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int test_three(int *max_blocks, int prealloc, int rand_fsync, /* Force a transaction commit in between just for fun */ if (blocks == sync_block && (do_sync || drop_caches)) { if (do_sync) - sync(); + syncfs(test_fd); else sync_file_range(test_fd, 0, 0, SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE| -- 2.45.2