Re: linux-next regression: IO errors in with ext4 and xen-blkfront

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:57:40AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2010-10-22 10:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:54:54AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> So how about we just disable barriers for Xen atm? I would really really
> >> like to push that branch out as well now, since I'll be travelling for
> >> most of the merge window this time.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what removing/commenting out that line does.
> 
> Certainly, but I meant in the barrier branch for submission. If
> it doesn't do empty flushes to begin with, that should be fixed
> up before being enabled in any case.

Yes, it should have been disabled log ago.  I had a long discussion with
them abnout it when they introduced the even more buggy barriers by
tags mode for .36 but they simply ignored it.

> I'll disable barrier support in xen-blkfront.c for now.

Thanks.

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