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From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Device loses barrier support
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:44:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4938BFAE.5090504@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081204145810.GR6703@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The write block with barrier bit varies, jbd/gfs2 do it synchronously
> too and xfs does it asynchronously (with io done callbacks), but
> in both cases they handle an EOPNOTSUPP comming out in the final
> io done.
> 
Yes, XFS handles it, however,
it doesn't look like we currently propagate the EOPNOTSUPP
up to where we test it (not set for b_error).
Patch disscussed recently on xfs list to rectify this.

--Tim


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05  5:56 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                 ` Device loses barrier support Eric Sandeen
2008-12-07  4:17             ` Device loses barrier support (was: Fixed patch for simple barriers.) Dave Chinner
2008-12-05  5:44           ` Timothy Shimmin [this message]

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