Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for log writes, remove the EOPNOTSUPP detection for barriers and stop setting the barrier flag for discards. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/log.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/gfs2/log.c 2010-08-17 16:19:53.597003932 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/log.c 2010-08-17 16:22:04.889005329 +0200 @@ -592,22 +592,13 @@ static void log_write_header(struct gfs2 lh->lh_hash = cpu_to_be32(hash); bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync; - if (test_bit(SDF_NOBARRIERS, &sdp->sd_flags)) - goto skip_barrier; get_bh(bh); - submit_bh(WRITE_BARRIER | REQ_META, bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); - if (buffer_eopnotsupp(bh)) { - clear_buffer_eopnotsupp(bh); - set_buffer_uptodate(bh); - fs_info(sdp, "barrier sync failed - disabling barriers\n"); - set_bit(SDF_NOBARRIERS, &sdp->sd_flags); - lock_buffer(bh); -skip_barrier: - get_bh(bh); + if (test_bit(SDF_NOBARRIERS, &sdp->sd_flags)) submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC | REQ_META, bh); - wait_on_buffer(bh); - } + else + submit_bh(WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META, bh); + wait_on_buffer(bh); + if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) gfs2_io_error_bh(sdp, bh); brelse(bh); Index: linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c 2010-08-17 16:21:23.626253967 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c 2010-08-17 16:21:39.702005748 +0200 @@ -854,8 +854,7 @@ static void gfs2_rgrp_send_discards(stru if ((start + nr_sects) != blk) { rv = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start, nr_sects, GFP_NOFS, - BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | - BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER); + BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT); if (rv) goto fail; nr_sects = 0; @@ -870,7 +869,7 @@ start_new_extent: } if (nr_sects) { rv = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, start, nr_sects, GFP_NOFS, - BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER); + BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT); if (rv) goto fail; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html