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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>,
	Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] target/file: Re-enable optional fd_buffered_io=1 operation
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:47:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121003114721.GA16209@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349209004.28145.61.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:16:44PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>          * Optionally allow fd_buffered_io=1 to be enabled for people
>          * who want use the fs buffer cache as an WriteCache mechanism.
>          *
>          * This means that in event of a hard failure, there is a risk
>          * of silent data-loss if the SCSI client has *not* performed a
>          * forced unit access (FUA) write, or issued SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
>          * to write-out the entire device cache.
>          */

Oh, I get Vlads flame.  This doesn't simply disable O_DSYNC now but also
sets WCE=1.  In this case I don't really get the point of the patch, why
can't we simply set it from configfs?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30  5:58 [PATCH 0/6] target: Reenable buffered FILEIO + add iscsi-target MXDSL logic Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-30  5:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] target/file: Re-enable optional fd_buffered_io=1 operation Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-10-01  8:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-02 19:02     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-10-02 20:16     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-10-03 11:47       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-10-04  0:02         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-30  5:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] iscsi-target: Add base MaxXmitDataSegmentLength code Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-30  5:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] iscsi-target: Enable MaxXmitDataSegmentLength operation in login path Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-30  5:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] iscsi-target: Convert incoming PDU payload checks to MaxXmitDataSegmentLength Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-30  5:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] iscsi-target: Add MaxXmitDataSegmentLength connection recovery check Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-09-30  5:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] iscsi-target: Change iscsi_target_seq_pdu_list.c to honor MaxXmitDataSegmentLength Nicholas A. Bellinger

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