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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@suse.de, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp,
	tj@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, swhiteho@redhat.com,
	chris.mason@oracle.com, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 2/2] dm: support REQ_FLUSH directly
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:40:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100827004044.GA18731@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100826225024.GB17832@redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 26 2010 at  6:50pm -0400,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Once we have a need for using request-based DM for something other than
> multipath we can take a fresh look at implementing rq-based FLUSH+FUA.
> 
> Mike
> 
> p.s. I know how hard NEC worked on request-based DM's barrier support;
> so I'm not suggesting this lightly.  For me it just seems like we're
> carrying complexity in DM that hasn't ever been required.

To be clear: the piece that I was saying wasn't required is the need to
for request-based DM to clone a FLUSH to send to multiple targets
(saying as much was just a confusing distraction.. please ignore that).

Anyway, my previous email's question still stands.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100727165627.GA474@lst.de>
     [not found] ` <20100727175418.GF6820@quack.suse.cz>
     [not found]   ` <20100803184939.GA12198@lst.de>
     [not found]     ` <20100803185148.GA12258@lst.de>
2010-08-04  4:57       ` [PATCH, RFC 2/2] dm: support REQ_FLUSH directly Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-08-04  8:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05  2:16           ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-26 22:50             ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-27  0:40               ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2010-08-27  1:20                 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-08-27  1:43               ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-27  4:08                 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-27  5:52                   ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-27 14:13                     ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30  4:45                       ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-30  8:33                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 12:43                           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 12:45                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-06 16:04     ` [PATCH, RFC] relaxed barriers Tejun Heo
2010-08-06 23:34       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-07 10:13       ` [PATCH REPOST " Tejun Heo
2010-08-08 14:31         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-09 14:50           ` Tejun Heo

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