From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> There's no need to invalidate the entire cache when writing a range of bytes to the device. The only ones we need to invalidate are the ones that we're writing separately. Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c b/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c index 0d1006207c60cd..4036c4b6f1481e 100644 --- a/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c +++ b/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c @@ -1469,6 +1469,7 @@ static errcode_t unix_write_byte(io_channel channel, unsigned long offset, { struct unix_private_data *data; errcode_t retval = 0; + unsigned long long bno, nbno; ssize_t actual; EXT2_CHECK_MAGIC(channel, EXT2_ET_MAGIC_IO_CHANNEL); @@ -1484,10 +1485,17 @@ static errcode_t unix_write_byte(io_channel channel, unsigned long offset, #ifndef NO_IO_CACHE /* - * Flush out the cache completely + * Flush all the dirty blocks, then invalidate the blocks we're about + * to write. */ - if ((retval = flush_cached_blocks(channel, data, FLUSH_INVALIDATE))) + retval = flush_cached_blocks(channel, data, 0); + if (retval) return retval; + + bno = offset / channel->block_size; + nbno = (offset + size + channel->block_size - 1) / channel->block_size; + + invalidate_cached_blocks(channel, data, bno, nbno - bno); #endif if (lseek(data->dev, offset + data->offset, SEEK_SET) < 0)