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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	hch@lst.de, James.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernle.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] lguest: replace VIRTIO_F_BARRIER support with VIRTIO_F_FLUSH/FUA support
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:52:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281977523-19335-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281977523-19335-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernle.org>

VIRTIO_F_BARRIER is deprecated.  Replace it with VIRTIO_F_FLUSH/FUA
support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
---
 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index e9ce3c5..3be47d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -1639,15 +1639,6 @@ static void blk_request(struct virtqueue *vq)
 	off = out->sector * 512;
 
 	/*
-	 * The block device implements "barriers", where the Guest indicates
-	 * that it wants all previous writes to occur before this write.  We
-	 * don't have a way of asking our kernel to do a barrier, so we just
-	 * synchronize all the data in the file.  Pretty poor, no?
-	 */
-	if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER)
-		fdatasync(vblk->fd);
-
-	/*
 	 * In general the virtio block driver is allowed to try SCSI commands.
 	 * It'd be nice if we supported eject, for example, but we don't.
 	 */
@@ -1679,6 +1670,19 @@ static void blk_request(struct virtqueue *vq)
 			/* Die, bad Guest, die. */
 			errx(1, "Write past end %llu+%u", off, ret);
 		}
+
+		/* Honor FUA by syncing everything. */
+		if (ret >= 0 && (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_FUA)) {
+			ret = fdatasync(vblk->fd);
+			verbose("FUA fdatasync: %i\n", ret);
+		}
+
+		wlen = sizeof(*in);
+		*in = (ret >= 0 ? VIRTIO_BLK_S_OK : VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR);
+	} else if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH) {
+		/* Flush */
+		ret = fdatasync(vblk->fd);
+		verbose("FLUSH fdatasync: %i\n", ret);
 		wlen = sizeof(*in);
 		*in = (ret >= 0 ? VIRTIO_BLK_S_OK : VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR);
 	} else {
@@ -1702,15 +1706,6 @@ static void blk_request(struct virtqueue *vq)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * OK, so we noted that it was pretty poor to use an fdatasync as a
-	 * barrier.  But Christoph Hellwig points out that we need a sync
-	 * *afterwards* as well: "Barriers specify no reordering to the front
-	 * or the back."  And Jens Axboe confirmed it, so here we are:
-	 */
-	if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER)
-		fdatasync(vblk->fd);
-
 	/* Finished that request. */
 	add_used(vq, head, wlen);
 }
@@ -1735,8 +1730,9 @@ static void setup_block_file(const char *filename)
 	vblk->fd = open_or_die(filename, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE);
 	vblk->len = lseek64(vblk->fd, 0, SEEK_END);
 
-	/* We support barriers. */
-	add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER);
+	/* We support FLUSH and FUA. */
+	add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH);
+	add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_FUA);
 
 	/* Tell Guest how many sectors this device has. */
 	conf.capacity = cpu_to_le64(vblk->len / 512);
-- 
1.7.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16 16:51 [RFC PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: convert to REQ_FLUSH/FUA Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] block/loop: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] virtio_blk: " Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 18:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-17  8:17     ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 13:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-17 16:22         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-18 10:22         ` Rusty Russell
2010-08-17  1:16   ` Rusty Russell
2010-08-17  8:18     ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 15:14   ` [PATCH 2/5 UPDATED] virtio_blk: drop REQ_HARDBARRIER support Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:52 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-08-19 15:15   ` [PATCH 3/5] lguest: replace VIRTIO_F_BARRIER support with VIRTIO_F_FLUSH support Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support Tejun Heo
2010-08-24  5:41   ` Neil Brown
2010-08-25 11:22     ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2010-08-25 11:42       ` Neil Brown
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] dm: implement " Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 19:02   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-17  9:33     ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 13:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-17 14:07       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-17 16:51         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 18:21           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-18  6:32             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 10:32           ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-08-19 15:45             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-18  9:53 ` [RFC PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: convert to REQ_FLUSH/FUA Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-18 14:26   ` James Bottomley
2010-08-18 14:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-19 15:37     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-08-19 15:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-19 15:56         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-08-23 16:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-24  9:51   ` Lars Ellenberg
2010-08-24 15:45   ` Philipp Reisner

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