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From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"MASON,CHRISTOPHER" <CHRIS.MASON@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Mount ext3 with barrier=1 doesn't send real barrier bio?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:43:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AD46C4.30207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821052604.GM20055@kernel.dk>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>   
>> Milan Broz wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I run some barrier tests over device-mapper (which currently doesn't
>>> support barrier bio at all) and even if I set barrier=1 in ext3 mount,
>>> there is never any bio with barrier flag... (in 2.6.27-rc)
>>>
>>> How is the barrier=1 flag supposed to work in ext3 (JBD) now?
>>>       
>> Milan, you're right.  Ric saw this same strange behavior when doing some
>> benchmarking with and without barriers; Chris noticed the change in
>> submit_bh; I was about to write up a similar patch to what you've sent
>> already.  Jens, does Milan's fix look good to you?
>>     
>
> Yep looks good, thanks a lot Milan! I'll send in the patch, unless I'm
> badly mistaken we need it for 2.6.26-stable as well.
>
>   

I think we definitely need it there as well, thanks!

Ric


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-21 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-15 21:31 Mount ext3 with barrier=1 doesn't send real barrier bio? Milan Broz
2008-08-20 23:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-08-21  5:26   ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-21 10:43     ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2008-08-21 22:23   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-22  6:38     ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-22  7:45       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-22  7:58         ` Jens Axboe

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