Re: [PATCH 26/27] xfs: cleanup I/O-related buffer flags

Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-06T09:11:55Z

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:09:15PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 05:43 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Remove the unused and misnamed _XBF_RUN_QUEUES flag, rename XBF_LOG_BUFFER
> > to the more fitting XBF_SYNCIO, and split XBF_ORDERED into XBF_FUA and
> > XBF_FLUSH to allow more fine grained control over the bio flags. Also
> > cleanup processing of the flags in _xfs_buf_ioapply to make more sense,
> > and renumber the sparse flag number space to group flags by purpose.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Interesting that _XBF_RUN_QUEUES was never actually used.
> The new names are much more understandable. Looks like
> READ_META and WRITE_META are now effectively gone...

They have been gone for a while.