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Andi Kleen authored
stat64 has been changed to return jiffies granuality as nsec in previously unused fields. This allows make to make better decisions on when to recompile a file. Follows losely the Solaris API. CURRENT_TIME has been redefined to return struct timespec. The users who don't use it in a inode/attr context have been changed to use a new get_seconds() function. CURRENT_TIME is implemented by an out-of-line function. There is a small performance penalty in this patch. The previous filemap code had an optimization to flush atime only once a second. This is currently gone, which will increase flushes a bit. I believe the correct solution if it should be a problem is to have per super block fields that give an arbitary atime flush granuality - so that you can set it to be only flushed once a hour if you prefer that. I will work on that later in separate patches if the need should arise. struct inode and the attr struct has been changed to store struct timespec instead of time_t for [cma]time. Not all file systems support this granuality, but some like XFS,NFSv3,CIFS,JFS do. The others will currently truncate the nsec part on flushing to disk. There was some discussion on this rounding on l-k previously. I went for simple truncation because there is not much evidence IMHO that the more complicated roundings have any advantages. In practice application will be rather unlikely to notice the rounding anyways - they can only see a difference when an inode is flush from memory and reloaded in less than a second, which is rather unlikely.
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