Re: [PATCH] REQ-flags to/from BIO-flags bugfix

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:06:45PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Thats not enough You still need to fix code in ll_rw_blk(), I would
> define a rq_flags_bio_match_mask = 0xf for that. 
> (and also add what Jens called "needed" with the
> BIO_RW_AHEAD selects REQ_FAILFAST.)

Yes, I appreciate it's not enough; that's why I didn't sign-off on it.

Nobody currently sets BIO_RW_AHEAD, so I don't understand why we need to
do anything ;-)

> And I still don't understand why, for example, "Domain Validation" fails
> with the original patch. What sets BIO_RW_FAILFAST and than panics
> on Errors?
> (All I see is this flag set in dm/multipath.c & dm-mpath.c)

No idea ...

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