From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] block: silently error unsupported empty barriers too
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:45:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090806114550.GL29899@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249557257.3721.55.camel@blaa>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:14:17PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> We should error all barriers, even empty barriers, on devices like
> virtio_blk which don't support them.
Have you considered whether or not virtio_blk actually needs to
support empty barriers?
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-06 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 11:14 Mark McLoughlin
2009-08-06 11:45 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2009-08-06 12:22 ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-07 1:50 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-10-28 20:19 ` Andrew Patterson
2009-10-28 21:03 ` Mike Snitzer
2009-10-29 7:45 ` Jens Axboe
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