Re: [PATCH 1/2] blk-flush: fix rq->flush.seq for post-flush requests

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 07:06:34 EST


On 2023/7/10 21:30, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:47:04PM +0800, chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> If the policy == (REQ_FSEQ_DATA | REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH), it means that the
>> data sequence and post-flush sequence need to be done for this request.
>>
>> The rq->flush.seq should record what sequences have been done (or don't
>> need to be done). So in this case, pre-flush doesn't need to be done,
>> we should init rq->flush.seq to REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH not REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH.
>>
>> Of course, this doesn't cause any problem in fact, since pre-flush and
>> post-flush sequence do the same thing for now.
>
> I wonder if it really doesn't cause any problems, but the change for
> sure looks good:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> It should probably go before your other flush optimizations and maybe
> grow a fixes tag.

Ok, will add a Fixes tag and send it as a separate patch since it's a bug fix.

Thanks.