From: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:59:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F19621.4000909@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160322185724.GA10113@infradead.org>
On 03/22/2016 12:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:55:17AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Add an internal helper and flag for setting whether a queue has
>> write back caching, or write through (or none). Add a sysfs file
>> to show this as well, and make it changeable from user space.
>
> We do this by passing the REQ_FLUSH flag to blk_queue_flush today.
> While that's not a great interface, adding a second one doesn't make it
> any better :)
I think the newer one is cleaner, so would make more sense to put the
flush part on top.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 17:55 [PATCHSET][RFC] Make background writeback not suck Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] block: ensure we don't truncate top bits of the request command flags Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-22 19:01 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-25 2:08 ` Mike Christie
2016-03-25 4:18 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] writeback: wb_start_writeback() should use WB_SYNC_ALL for WB_REASON_SYNC Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 21:34 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 21:40 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 21:51 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 22:04 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 22:07 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 18:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-22 18:59 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] sd: inform block layer of write cache state Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] NVMe: " Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 6/6] writeback: throttle buffered writeback Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 20:12 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-03-22 20:19 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 20:27 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-03-22 21:30 ` Shaohua Li
2016-03-22 21:35 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 21:51 ` [PATCHSET][RFC] Make background writeback not suck Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 22:03 ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 22:31 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 22:57 ` Jens Axboe
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