From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:59:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901185907.GA26411@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100901170743.GB25644@redhat.com>
On Wed, Sep 01 2010 at 1:07pm -0400,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01 2010 at 11:35am -0400,
> Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > >
> > > Mikulas,
> > >
> > > Current bio-based barrier support also defers IO if a flush is in
> > > progress. See _dm_request:
> >
> > I know. But it doesn't hurt with flush/fua requests. It just lowers
> > performance (it defers i/os when it doesn't have to) but doesn't damage
> > data.
> >
> > So I think that we can let it be this way until flush/fua patch is
> > finalized.
>
> Neither Tejun nor I see the point in waiting when we have a window of
> time to address the issues now. We want DM to realize the benefit
> associated with the kernel-wide FLUSH+FUA conversion too.
But we can meet in the middle. I've reordered the DM FLUSH+FUA patches
so that the more intrusive bio-based relaxed ordering patch is at the
very end.
My hope was that the request-based deadlock I'm seeing would disappear
if that relaxed ordering patch wasn't applied. Unfortunately, I still
see the hang.
Anyway, I've made the patches available here:
http://people.redhat.com/msnitzer/patches/flush-fua/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-01 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1283162296-13650-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] block: make __blk_rq_prep_clone() copy most command flags Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:43 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:50 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:54 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] dm: relax ordering of bio-based flush implementation Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 9:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <1283162296-13650-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 13:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Mike Snitzer
[not found] ` <20100830132836.GB5283@redhat.com>
2010-08-30 13:59 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4C7BB932.1070405@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 15:07 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:42 ` [PATCH] block: initialize flush request with WRITE_FLUSH instead of REQ_FLUSH Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:45 ` [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4C7BC942.7070703@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 19:08 ` [PATCH " Mike Snitzer
[not found] ` <20100830190835.GA8458@redhat.com>
2010-08-30 21:28 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-31 10:29 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-31 13:02 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-31 13:14 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4C7BD202.4040700@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 19:18 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Mike Snitzer
[not found] ` <20100830194731.GA10702@redhat.com>
2010-09-01 10:31 ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 11:20 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 12:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 12:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 12:54 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 15:20 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 15:35 ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 17:07 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 18:59 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2010-09-02 3:22 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-02 10:24 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-02 15:11 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 15:26 ` [REGRESSION][BISECTED] virtio-blk serial attribute causes guest to hang [Was: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm] Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 15:44 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 15:57 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 16:03 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 17:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 18:35 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 19:15 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 19:43 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 20:14 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 20:30 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 21:00 ` [PATCH] virtio-blk: put request that was created to retrieve the device id Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 14:58 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-21 21:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 16:06 ` [2.6.36 REGRESSION] " Mike Snitzer
2010-10-09 1:41 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <1283162296-13650-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-09-01 13:51 ` [PATCH 3/5] dm: relax ordering of bio-based flush implementation Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:56 ` Tejun Heo
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