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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] jbd: Provide function to check whether transaction will issue data barrier
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:48:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100427204831.GD5103@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eii1d0hy.fsf@openvz.org>

On Tue 27-04-10 07:42:49, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Provide a function which returns whether a transaction with given tid
> > will send a barrier to the filesystem device. The function will be used
> > by ext3 to detect whether fsync needs to send a separate barrier or not.
> Agree. Except the fact that in case of j_dev != j_fs_dev jbd is still
> broken.
  Yeah, I know about this. I had a look at it but stumbled over a barrier
issue in the checkpointing code
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=127198235617788&w=2) so I though I'll
wait till that gets resolved.

> I'm plan to post back-port from jbd2 which makes
> journal_trans_will_send_data_barrier() more complex. It have to analyze
> commit_transaction->t_flushed_data_blocks.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26 20:10 [PATCH 0/2] Fix waiting on transaction in ext3_sync_file Jan Kara
2010-04-26 20:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] jbd: Provide function to check whether transaction will issue data barrier Jan Kara
2010-04-27  3:42   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-04-27 20:48     ` Jan Kara [this message]
2010-04-26 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext3: Fix waiting on transaction during fsync Jan Kara

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