From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: [PATCH 11/30] block: filter flush bio's in __generic_make_request() Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:47:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1282751267-3530-12-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> References: <1282751267-3530-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tejun Heo To: jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, hch@l Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1282751267-3530-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org There are a number of make_request based drivers which don't support cache flushes. Filter out flush bio's in __generic_make_request() so that they don't have to worry about them. All FLUSH/FUA requests with data are converted to regular IO requests and empty ones are completed immediately. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- block/blk-core.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 18455c4..495bdc4 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1509,6 +1509,19 @@ static inline void __generic_make_request(struct bio *bio) if (bio_check_eod(bio, nr_sectors)) goto end_io; + /* + * Filter flush bio's early so that make_request based + * drivers without flush support don't have to worry + * about them. + */ + if ((bio->bi_rw & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) && !q->flush_flags) { + bio->bi_rw &= ~(REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA); + if (!nr_sectors) { + err = 0; + goto end_io; + } + } + if ((bio->bi_rw & REQ_DISCARD) && (!blk_queue_discard(q) || ((bio->bi_rw & REQ_SECURE) && -- 1.7.1