Re: [PATCH v7.1] block: Coordinate flush requests

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jan 20 2011 - 14:14:32 EST


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:50:57PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:12:55AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > This makes sense. would it possible N flush data payloads delay the
> > first request?
>
> I ended up with a different design. Still buggy. It triggers a weird
> oops under stress test but other than that things generally seem to
> work as expected. Please read the comment at the top of blk-flush.c
> for more info. I'll post properly after more testing and debugging.

The oops was caused by debugging code I put in (not posted together).
It runs fine without it, so if you have some time, please give it a
spin.

Thanks.

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tejun
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