From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
JBeulich@novell.com, jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com,
axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen/blk[front|back]: Use the full FLUSH | FUA instead of just FLUSH.
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:08:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110910180849.GA6621@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315593060-20031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 02:30:59PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> During a FLUSH we can pass sector number that we want to
> have flushed - which is what FUA requests are.
No, that is not the case.
REQ_FLUSH without data -> pure flush
REQ_FLUSH with data -> preflush plus write
REQ_FUA -> write and ranged postflush
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-10 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-09 18:30 [PATCH] xen-blk[front|back] FUA additions Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-09 18:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen/blk[front|back]: Use the full FLUSH | FUA instead of just FLUSH Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-10 18:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-09-11 0:33 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-09 18:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-12 8:01 ` Jan Beulich
2011-09-16 19:15 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-09-19 9:35 ` Jan Beulich
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