From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751230Ab1AHHpy (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2011 02:45:54 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:49163 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858Ab1AHHpw (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jan 2011 02:45:52 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 08:45:24 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Ted Ts'o" , Christoph Hellwig , "Darrick J. Wong" , Jens Axboe , Neil Brown , Andreas Dilger , Alasdair G Kergon , Jan Kara , Mike Snitzer , linux-kernel , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Keith Mannthey , dm-devel@redhat.com, Mingming Cao , Tejun Heo , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ric Wheeler , Josef Bacik Subject: Re: Patch to issue pure flushes directly (Was: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] ext4: Coordinate data-only flush requests sent) by fsync Message-ID: <20110108074524.GA13024@lst.de> References: <20101129220536.12401.16581.stgit@elm3b57.beaverton.ibm.com> <20101130164124.GA30858@lst.de> <20110107235449.GT21922@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110107235449.GT21922@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 06:54:49PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > This patch seemed like a good idea to me; I just checked linux-next, > and looks like nothing like this is planned to be merged. Just > thought I would send a prod-o-gram to see what the current thinking > was around adding something like this. I haven't really gotten any feedback on the patch, so it fell on the floor for a while. I've managed to get some big system resources to test the impact of it, and once I've got numbers I'll resend it as separate patches for scsi and the block layer.