block: use fdatasync instead of fsync if possible

If we are flushing the caches for our image files we only care about the
data (including the metadata required for accessing it) but not things
like timestamp updates.  So try to use fdatasync instead of fsync to
implement the flush operations.

Unfortunately many operating systems still do not support fdatasync,
so we add a qemu_fdatasync wrapper that uses fdatasync if available
as per the _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO feature macro or fsync otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h
index f3cfb683ea..12e7dd0ada 100644
--- a/qemu-common.h
+++ b/qemu-common.h
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ int stristart(const char *str, const char *val, const char **ptr);
 int qemu_strnlen(const char *s, int max_len);
 time_t mktimegm(struct tm *tm);
 int qemu_fls(int i);
+int qemu_fdatasync(int fd);
 
 /* path.c */
 void init_paths(const char *prefix);