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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-09-23 11:25:27 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-09-24 18:19:46 +0100
commite576d2ec46adefa14b2d9c3d51e7f19a7810f909 (patch)
treec52616ebd896459d83e7724e990a7b1440704e52
parentb8cea4656e5bf1b9e7bb2274ef968ea42b10e0df (diff)
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Use ext2fs_close2 API if available to avoid unnecessary fsync.
This saves over 5 seconds during the slow path construction of the appliance. The ext2fs_close2 API is present in the e2fsprogs 'next' branch and will be in a later e2fsprogs release (thanks Ted Ts'o).
-rw-r--r--configure.ac1
-rw-r--r--helper/ext2.c10
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a75a581..23c876b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ old_LIBS="$LIBS"
AC_CHECK_LIB([ext2fs],[ext2fs_file_open2],[],[
AC_MSG_FAILURE([libext2fs library not found (part of e2fsprogs)])
])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ext2fs_close2])
LIBS="$old_LIBS"
AC_CHECK_HEADER([ext2fs/ext2fs.h],[],[
diff --git a/helper/ext2.c b/helper/ext2.c
index 2395871..56ad5e5 100644
--- a/helper/ext2.c
+++ b/helper/ext2.c
@@ -107,8 +107,16 @@ ext2_start (const char *hostcpu, const char *appliance,
static void
ext2_end (void)
{
+ if (verbose)
+ print_timestamped_message ("closing ext2 filesystem");
+
/* Write out changes and close. */
- errcode_t err = ext2fs_close (fs);
+ errcode_t err;
+#ifdef HAVE_EXT2FS_CLOSE2
+ err = ext2fs_close2 (fs, EXT2_FLAG_FLUSH_NO_SYNC);
+#else
+ err = ext2fs_close (fs);
+#endif
if (err != 0)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "ext2fs_close: %s", error_message (err));
}