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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Questions on block drivers, REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:24 -0400
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 06:43:01PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:

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> Thanks once again. My driver is currently request-based. Is there any
> significant advantage converting it to be bio based?

Some people try to avoid the ovhead of elevator if device is very fast
and try to go for bio based driver. Or they create both the modes and
let user choose one.

Thanks
Vivek

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> Alex Bligh