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core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only mode

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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 <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Neeraj Singh
2022-03-10 22:43:20 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 19d3f228c8
commit abf38abec2
13 changed files with 184 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
HAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC = YesPlease
# -lrt is needed for clock_gettime on glibc <= 2.16
NEEDS_LIBRT = YesPlease
HAVE_SYNC_FILE_RANGE = YesPlease
HAVE_GETDELIM = YesPlease
FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES = UnfortunatelyYes
BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_SYSINFO
@ -463,6 +464,7 @@ endif
CFLAGS =
BASIC_CFLAGS = -nologo -I. -Icompat/vcbuild/include -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DHAVE_STRING_H -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE
COMPAT_OBJS = compat/msvc.o compat/winansi.o \
compat/win32/flush.o \
compat/win32/path-utils.o \
compat/win32/pthread.o compat/win32/syslog.o \
compat/win32/trace2_win32_process_info.o \
@ -640,6 +642,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW)
COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\"
COMPAT_OBJS += compat/mingw.o compat/winansi.o \
compat/win32/trace2_win32_process_info.o \
compat/win32/flush.o \
compat/win32/path-utils.o \
compat/win32/pthread.o compat/win32/syslog.o \
compat/win32/dirent.o