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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Device loses barrier support
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:26:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49389F81.1090306@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812041401210.23079@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>

Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> Another thing:
> 
> I'm wondering, where in fsync() does Linux wait for hardware disk cache to 
> be flushed? Isn't there a bug that fsync() will return before the cache is 
> flushed? I couldn't really find it. The last thing do_fsync calls is 
> filemap_fdatawait and it doesn't do cache flush (blkdev_issue_flush).

ext4, reiserfs, and xfs all call blkdev_issue_flush() in their ->fsync
file operations (or down that path).

-Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812040009340.15169@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <20081204100050.GN6703@one.firstfloor.org>
2008-12-04 14:00   ` Device loses barrier support (was: Fixed patch for simple barriers.) Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-04 14:20     ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-04 14:17       ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-04 14:58         ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-04 16:45           ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-04 17:48             ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-04 17:53               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-04 19:37               ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-04 22:15                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-04 23:08                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-05  0:48                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-05  1:16                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-05  1:37                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-05  2:21                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-12-05  3:09                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-05 11:52                           ` Alan Cox
2008-12-05 12:29                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-05  3:26                 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-12-07  4:17             ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-05  5:44           ` Device loses barrier support Timothy Shimmin

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