From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 458F7C27C75 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 04:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4VzY5Z1pbMz3fmL for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:50:58 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=lst.de (client-ip=213.95.11.211; helo=verein.lst.de; envelope-from=hch@lst.de; receiver=lists.ozlabs.org) Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4VzY575MFhz3cTx for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:50:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 27E1B68BEB; Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:50:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:50:26 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Damien Le Moal Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/26] xen-blkfront: don't disable cache flushes when they fail Message-ID: <20240612045026.GA26653@lst.de> References: <20240611051929.513387-1-hch@lst.de> <20240611051929.513387-11-hch@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Song Liu , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Vineeth Vijayan , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Alasdair Kergon , drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger , Geert Uytterhoeven , Yu Kuai , dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, Mike Snitzer , Josef Bacik , Ming Lei , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Mikulas Patocka , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org, Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Philipp Reisner , Christoph =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmwalder?= , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Lars Ellenberg , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Roger Pau =?iso-8859-1?Q?Monn=E9?= Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 04:30:39PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > On 6/11/24 2:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > blkfront always had a robust negotiation protocol for detecting a write > > cache. Stop simply disabling cache flushes when they fail as that is > > a grave error. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig > > Looks good to me but maybe mention that removal of xlvbd_flush() as well ? > And it feels like the "stop disabling cache flushes when they fail" part should > be a fix patch sent separately... I'll move the patch to the front of the series to get more attention from the maintainers, but otherwise the xlvbd_flush remova lis the really trivial part here.