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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@suse.de, tytso@mit.edu, chris.mason@oracle.com,
	swhiteho@redhat.com, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, vst@vlnb.net, jack@suse.cz,
	rwheeler@redhat.com, hare@suse.de, neilb@suse.de, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] virtio_blk: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:52:02 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008181952.03093.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100817132327.GA3347@lst.de>

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:53:27 pm Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Given how little testing lguest gets compared to qemu I really don't
> want a protocol addition for it unless it really buys us something.
> Once we're done with this barrier conversion I plan into benchmarking
> FUA and a pre-flush tag on the command for virtio in real life setups,
> and see if it actually buys us anything.

Absolutely.  Lguest should follow, not lead!

Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-18 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16 16:51 [RFC PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: convert to REQ_FLUSH/FUA Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] block/loop: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] virtio_blk: " Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 18:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-17  8:17     ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 13:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-17 16:22         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-18 10:22         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-08-17  1:16   ` Rusty Russell
2010-08-17  8:18     ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 15:14   ` [PATCH 2/5 UPDATED] virtio_blk: drop REQ_HARDBARRIER support Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] lguest: replace VIRTIO_F_BARRIER support with VIRTIO_F_FLUSH/FUA support Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 15:15   ` [PATCH 3/5] lguest: replace VIRTIO_F_BARRIER support with VIRTIO_F_FLUSH support Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support Tejun Heo
2010-08-24  5:41   ` Neil Brown
2010-08-25 11:22     ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2010-08-25 11:42       ` Neil Brown
2010-08-16 16:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] dm: implement " Tejun Heo
2010-08-16 19:02   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-17  9:33     ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 13:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-17 14:07       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-17 16:51         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-17 18:21           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-18  6:32             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 10:32           ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-08-19 15:45             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-23 16:47 ` [RFC PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: convert to REQ_FLUSH/FUA Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-24  9:51   ` Lars Ellenberg
2010-08-24 15:45   ` Philipp Reisner
     [not found]     ` <20101022083511.GA7853@lst.de>
2010-10-23 11:18       ` [GIT PULL] convert DRBD " Philipp Reisner
2010-10-23 11:21         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-23 16:48         ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-23 16:59           ` [PATCH] block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-23 17:17             ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-10-23 19:07             ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-24 11:58               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-10 13:42               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-10 13:59                 ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-23 19:08             ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-25  8:54             ` Tejun Heo

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