From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions on block drivers, REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110525191024.GB6724@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2D8E6A46790AC2395383D82B@Ximines.local>
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 06:43:01PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
[..]
> Thanks once again. My driver is currently request-based. Is there any
> significant advantage converting it to be bio based?
Some people try to avoid the ovhead of elevator if device is very fast
and try to go for bio based driver. Or they create both the modes and
let user choose one.
Thanks
Vivek
>
> --
> Alex Bligh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 21:29 Questions on block drivers, REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA Alex Bligh
2011-05-24 22:32 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-05-24 22:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-05-25 8:06 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-25 8:59 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-25 15:54 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-25 16:43 ` Tejun Heo
2011-05-25 17:43 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-25 19:10 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2011-05-25 19:58 ` Alex Bligh
2011-05-25 19:15 ` Vivek Goyal
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