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 --- environment.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'environment.c') diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c index fd0501e77a..3e3620d759 100644 --- a/environment.c +++ b/environment.c @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ int zlib_compression_level = Z_BEST_SPEED; int pack_compression_level = Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION; int fsync_object_files; int use_fsync = -1; +enum fsync_method fsync_method = FSYNC_METHOD_DEFAULT; size_t packed_git_window_size = DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_WINDOW_SIZE; size_t packed_git_limit = DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_LIMIT; size_t delta_base_cache_limit = 96 * 1024 * 1024; -- cgit v1.2.3