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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, tytso@mit.edu, djwong@us.ibm.com,
	shli@kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
	jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kmannth@us.ibm.com,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, rwheeler@redhat.com,
	hch@lst.de, josef@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:31:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110123103133.GC23121@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110122004955.GA17792@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:49:55PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > + * If the device doesn't have writeback cache, FLUSH and FUA don't make any
> > + * difference.  The requests are either completed immediately if there's no
> > + * data or executed as normal requests otherwise.
> 
> For devices without a writeback cache, I'm not seeing where pure flushes
> are completed immediately.  But I do see where data is processed
> directly in blk_insert_flush().

Yeah, it does.  Pure flushes on a device w/o writeback cache, @policy
is zero and blk_flush_complete_seq() will directly proceed to
REQ_FSEQ_DONE.

> > -struct request *blk_do_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
> > +/**
> > + * blk_abort_flush - @q is being aborted, abort flush requests
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> Small comment nit, s/blk_abort_flush/blk_abort_flushes/

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-23 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-21 15:59 [PATCHSET] block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 15:59 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 15:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: add REQ_FLUSH_SEQ Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 15:59   ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 15:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] block: improve flush bio completion Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 15:59   ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 15:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge Tejun Heo
2011-01-21 18:56   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-01-21 19:19     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-01-23 10:25     ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-23 10:29       ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-24 20:31       ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-25 10:21         ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-25 11:39           ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-23 23:37             ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-25 22:56           ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-22  0:49   ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-23 10:31     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-01-25 20:46       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-01-25 21:04         ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-23 10:48   ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2011-01-23 10:48     ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-25 20:41   ` [KNOWN BUGGY RFC PATCH 4/3] block: skip elevator initialization for flush requests Mike Snitzer
2011-01-25 20:41     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-25 21:55     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-01-26  5:27       ` [RFC PATCH 4/3] block: skip elevator initialization for flush requests -- was never BUGGY relative to upstream Mike Snitzer
2011-01-26 10:03     ` [KNOWN BUGGY RFC PATCH 4/3] block: skip elevator initialization for flush requests Tejun Heo
2011-01-26 10:05       ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-01 17:38       ` [RFC " Mike Snitzer
2011-02-01 18:52         ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-01 22:46           ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Mike Snitzer
2011-02-02 21:51             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-02-02 22:06               ` Mike Snitzer
2011-02-02 22:55             ` [PATCH v3 1/2] block: skip elevator data " Mike Snitzer
2011-02-03  9:28               ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-03 14:48                 ` [PATCH v4 " Mike Snitzer
2011-02-03 13:24               ` [PATCH v3 " Jens Axboe
2011-02-03 13:38                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-04 15:04                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-02-04 15:08                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-04 16:58                     ` [PATCH v5 " Mike Snitzer
2011-02-03 14:54                 ` [PATCH v3 " Mike Snitzer
2011-02-01 22:46           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] block: share request flush fields with elevator_private Mike Snitzer
2011-02-01 22:46             ` Mike Snitzer
2011-02-02 21:52             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-02-03  9:24             ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-11 10:08             ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-21 15:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge Tejun Heo

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