Synchronous writes

Question

Im looking for help to find out what is correct way to determine when process doing synchronous writes to files.
As much as I understand synchronous writes happens when you open file with O_SYNC and O_DSYNC and perform write call.
I have created small C test with O_SYNC:
write_sync.c
int main()
srand ( time(NULL) );
char *filename = "test.txt";
char buf[4];
sprintf(buf,"%d",rand());
int ftest=access("test.txt",F_OK);
int fd = open (filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT |O_SYNC, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH );
write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
close(fd);
Dtrace show this on io:
dtrace -n 'io:::start / execname == "write_sync"/ {printf("%s %d %d %s",execname,args[0]->b_flags,args[0]->b_bufsize,args[2]->fi_pathname);}'
dtrace: description 'io:::start ' matched 6 probes
CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 524561 1024 /export/home/user/test.txt
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 257 0 <none>
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 257 0 <none>
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 16777489 0 /export/home/user/test.txt
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 16777489 0 /export/home/user/test.txt
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 257 0 <none>
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 257 0 <none>
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 257 0 <none>
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 16777473 0 <none>
11 3381 bdev_strategy:start write_sync 16777473 0 <none>
As I see buffer size shows only in first line 1024 and it cold be write I looking for. So b_flags for this write is 524561 and value according to /usr/include/sys/buf.h means:
0x0001 B_BUSY -> not on av_forw/back list
0x0010 B_PAGEIO -> do I/O to pages on bp->p_pages
0x0100 B_WRITE -> non-read pseudo-flag
0x080000 B_NOCACHE -> dont cache block when released
So if this true than you can find all sync writes with
dtrace -n 'io:::start / args[0]->b_flags == 524561 / {@Z[execname,args[2]->fi_pathname]=count();}'
This is how far I got and I'm not really sure if this is correct way.
P.S. sorry for my english
Edited by: 811258 on Jan 27, 2012 2:23 AM
Edited by: 811258 on Jan 27, 2012 2:24 AM
Edited by: 811258 on Jan 27, 2012 2:28 AM

Answer 1

there is a way to activate the processing of a file using a trigger file;
you should create the trigger file only after completion of the creation of the main file
consumption of the main file is activated by the trigger file
hope it helps