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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, Ian.Campbell@citrix.com,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	daniel.stodden@citrix.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] xen-blkfront: Provide for 'feature-flush-cache' the BLKIF_OP_WRITE_FLUSH_CACHE operation.
Date: Thu,  5 May 2011 14:55:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304621721-22608-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304621721-22608-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The operation BLKIF_OP_WRITE_FLUSH_CACHE has existed in the Xen
tree header file for years but it was never present in the Linux tree
because the frontend (nor the backend) supported this interface.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
 include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
index 61e523a..3d5d6db 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ typedef uint64_t blkif_sector_t;
 #define BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER     2
 
 /*
+ * Recognised if "feature-flush-cache" is present in backend xenbus
+ * info.  A flush will ask the underlying storage hardware to flush its
+ * non-volatile caches as appropriate.  The "feature-flush-cache" node
+ * contains a boolean indicating whether flush requests are likely to
+ * succeed or fail. Either way, a flush request may fail at any time
+ * with BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP if it is unsupported by the underlying
+ * block-device hardware. The boolean simply indicates whether or not it
+ * is worthwhile for the frontend to attempt flushes.  If a backend does
+ * not recognise BLKIF_OP_WRITE_FLUSH_CACHE, it should *not* create the
+ * "feature-flush-cache" node!
+ */
+#define BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE   3
+/*
  * Maximum scatter/gather segments per request.
  * This is carefully chosen so that sizeof(struct blkif_ring) <= PAGE_SIZE.
  * NB. This could be 12 if the ring indexes weren't stored in the same page.
-- 
1.7.4.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-05 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-05 18:55 [PATCH] xen-blkfront patches for 2.6.40 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-05 18:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen-blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in blkfront_connect Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-05 18:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-05-05 18:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen-blkfront: Introduce BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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