From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
dsterba@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: Introduce blkdev_issue_flush_no_wait()
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 04:56:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170516115605.GA18649@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170516093914.16035-2-anand.jain@oracle.com>
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 05:39:13PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> blkdev_issue_flush() is a blocking function and returns only after
> the flush bio is completed, so a module handling more than one
> device can't issue flush for all the devices unless it uses worker
> thread.
>
> This patch adds a new function blkdev_issue_flush_no_wait(), which
> uses submit_bio() instead of submit_bio_wait(), and accepts the
> completion function and data from the caller.
Just open code the damn thing, and drop the various superflous checks
while you're at it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-16 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 9:39 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce blkdev_issue_flush_no_wait() Anand Jain
2017-05-16 9:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: " Anand Jain
2017-05-16 11:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-05-18 9:31 ` Anand Jain
2017-05-21 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-24 8:42 ` Anand Jain
2017-05-16 9:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: Use blkdev_issue_flush_no_wait() Anand Jain
2017-05-16 12:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 14:07 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Introduce blkdev_issue_flush_no_wait() Bart Van Assche
2017-05-17 17:14 ` David Sterba
2017-05-18 9:31 ` Anand Jain
2017-05-18 9:27 ` Anand Jain
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