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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de,
	andres@anarazel.de, david@fromorbit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:54:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230720045459.GC1811@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230719195417.1704513-4-axboe@kernel.dk>

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 01:54:14PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Whether we have a write back cache and are using FUA or don't have
> a write back cache at all is the same situation. Treat them the same.

This looks correct, but I think the IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA is rather
misnamed now which could lead to confusion.  The comment in
__iomap_dio_rw when checking the flag and clearing IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC
also needs a little update to talk about writethrough semantics and
not just FUA now.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19 19:54 [PATCHSET v3 0/6] Improve async iomap DIO performance Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io() Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:13     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:19     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:54   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-07-20 16:23     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  5:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:25     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_DEFER Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] iomap: support IOCB_DIO_DEFER Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:27     ` Jens Axboe

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