Re: [PATCH 26/30] ext4: do not send discards as barriers

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Aug 26 2010 - 04:32:01 EST


On 08/25/2010 10:02 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 25-08-10 17:57:41, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> On 08/25/2010 06:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:58:42PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:47:43PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>>> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> ext4 already uses synchronous discards, no need to add I/O barriers.
>>>>
>>>> This needs the patch that Jan sent in reply to my initial version merged
>>>> into it.
>>>
>>> Actually the jbd2 patch needs it merged, but the point still stands.
>>
>> Yeah, wasn't sure about that one. Has anyone tested it? I'll be
>> happy to merge it but I have no idea whether it's correct or not and
>> Jan didn't seem to have tested it so... Jan, shall I merge the patch?
> I'm quite confident the patch is correct so you can merge it I think but
> tomorrow I'll give it some crash testing together with the rest of your
> patch set in KVM to be sure.

Patch included in the series before jbd2 conversion patch.

Thanks.

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tejun
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