From abf38abec201cded6094801766d69e11a6c112b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neeraj Singh Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:43:20 +0000 Subject: core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only mode This commit introduces the `core.fsyncMethod` configuration knob, which can currently be set to `fsync` or `writeout-only`. The new writeout-only mode attempts to tell the operating system to flush its in-memory page cache to the storage hardware without issuing a CACHE_FLUSH command to the storage controller. Writeout-only fsync is significantly faster than a vanilla fsync on common hardware, since data is written to a disk-side cache rather than all the way to a durable medium. Later changes in this patch series will take advantage of this primitive to implement batching of hardware flushes. When git_fsync is called with FSYNC_WRITEOUT_ONLY, it may fail and the caller is expected to do an ordinary fsync as needed. On Apple platforms, the fsync system call does not issue a CACHE_FLUSH directive to the storage controller. This change updates fsync to do fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) to make fsync actually durable. We maintain parity with existing behavior on Apple platforms by setting the default value of the new core.fsyncMethod option. Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Makefile | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Makefile') diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 6f0b4b775f..17fd9b023a 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -411,6 +411,8 @@ all:: # # Define HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC if your platform has CLOCK_MONOTONIC. # +# Define HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE if your platform has sync_file_range. +# # Define NEEDS_LIBRT if your platform requires linking with librt (glibc version # before 2.17) for clock_gettime and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. # @@ -1897,6 +1899,10 @@ ifdef HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC endif +ifdef HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE + BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE +endif + ifdef NEEDS_LIBRT EXTLIBS += -lrt endif -- cgit v1.3