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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	"dan.j.williams@intel.com" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: raid5-cache I/O path improvements V2
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 03:53:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150917015326.GA22865@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150915215458.GA1943628@devbig084.prn1.facebook.com>

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:54:59PM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > I don't want a sysfs config if we can possibly avoid it.
> > 
> > Christoph's code sets FUA on every block written to the log, both data
> > and metadata.  Is that really what we want?
> > 
> > I don't know much of the hardware details, but wouldn't setting FUA and
> > FLUSH on the last block written be just as effective and possibly faster
> > (by giving more flexibility to lower layers)??
> 
> How is it different against without FUA, eg, doing a flush after several bios?

It's just a more complicated version of doing the same..

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-17  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-12  6:17 raid5-cache I/O path improvements V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 01/12] raid5-cache: port to 4.3-rc Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 02/12] raid5-cache: free I/O units earlier Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-15  7:00   ` Neil Brown
2015-09-17  1:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-15  8:07   ` Neil Brown
2015-09-17  1:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 03/12] raid5-cache: rename flushed_ios to finished_ios Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 04/12] raid5-cache: factor out a helper to run all stripes for an I/O unit Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 05/12] raid5-cache: use FUA writes for the log Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 06/12] raid5-cache: clean up r5l_get_meta Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 07/12] raid5-cache: refactor bio allocation Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 08/12] raid5-cache: take rdev->data_offset into account early on Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 09/12] raid5-cache: inline r5l_alloc_io_unit into r5l_new_meta Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 10/12] raid5-cache: new helper: r5_reserve_log_entry Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 11/12] raid5-cache: small log->seq cleanup Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-12  6:17 ` [PATCH 12/12] raid5-cache: use bio chaining Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-14 19:11 ` raid5-cache I/O path improvements V2 Shaohua Li
2015-09-15  7:23   ` Neil Brown
2015-09-15 21:54     ` Shaohua Li
2015-09-17  1:53       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-09-28 14:01       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-30  5:39         ` Neil Brown
2015-09-30 15:00           ` Christoph Hellwig

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