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The fat_file_datasync() read every cluster of the file into the cache
and then synchronized it step-by-step. For unmodified buffers this is a
non-operation. For modified buffers this will wake-up the swapout task
which performs then a single buffer write operation. This is usually
quite inefficient. Firstly we do single buffer writes, secondly we
may perform a lot of unnecessary read operations (for huge files this is
really bad), and thirdly this leads likely to cache evictions.
The synchronization procedure is replaced by a simple
rtems_bdbuf_sync_dev(). This has the side-effect that also buffers not
related to the file are synchronized, but since the modified list is
normally short this should be acceptable.
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