From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:54:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC545D2.9020303@kernel.org> References: <1281977523-19335-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <201008241745.35242.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> <20101022083511.GA7853@lst.de> <201010231318.33517.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> <4CC311D5.9040904@fusionio.com> <20101023165924.GA1395@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:38648 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103Ab0JYIyt (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:54:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20101023165924.GA1395@lst.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 10/23/2010 06:59 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left > at this point is: > > - various checks inside the block layer. > - sanity checks in bio based drivers. > - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper. > - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while, > but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton. > - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi > drivers. > - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been > removed when flushes were converted to FS requests. > - blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace > better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Thanks. -- tejun