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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	andres@anarazel.de, david@fromorbit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:23:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc9fa4dd-0528-9668-4c6c-28c4ecc9fd5a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230720045459.GC1811@lst.de>

On 7/19/23 10:54?PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 01:54:14PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Whether we have a write back cache and are using FUA or don't have
>> a write back cache at all is the same situation. Treat them the same.
> 
> This looks correct, but I think the IOMAP_DIO_WRITE_FUA is rather
> misnamed now which could lead to confusion.  The comment in

It is - should I rename it to IOMAP_DIO_STABLE_WRITE or something like
that as part of this change?

> __iomap_dio_rw when checking the flag and clearing IOMAP_DIO_NEED_SYNC
> also needs a little update to talk about writethrough semantics and
> not just FUA now.

Will do.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19 19:54 [PATCHSET v3 0/6] Improve async iomap DIO performance Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io() Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:13     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:19     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:23     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  5:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:25     ` Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_DEFER Jens Axboe
2023-07-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] iomap: support IOCB_DIO_DEFER Jens Axboe
2023-07-20  4:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-20 16:27     ` Jens Axboe

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