From: David Sterba Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:39:35 +0000 (+0200) Subject: btrfs: wake up transaction thread from SYNC_FS ioctl X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fad4e83e12591eb3bd213875b9edc2d18e93383;p=linux-beck.git btrfs: wake up transaction thread from SYNC_FS ioctl The transaction thread may want to do more work, namely it pokes the cleaner ktread that will start processing uncleaned subvols. This can be triggered by user via the 'btrfs fi sync' command, otherwise there was a delay up to 30 seconds before the cleaner started to clean old snapshots. Signed-off-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c index e5ed222267ee..4492e017bdb2 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c @@ -5288,6 +5288,12 @@ long btrfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int if (ret) return ret; ret = btrfs_sync_fs(file->f_dentry->d_sb, 1); + /* + * The transaction thread may want to do more work, + * namely it pokes the cleaner ktread that will start + * processing uncleaned subvols. + */ + wake_up_process(root->fs_info->transaction_kthread); return ret; } case BTRFS_IOC_START_SYNC: