On 08/30/2010 06:45 AM, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > Hi Mike, > > (08/27/10 23:13), Mike Snitzer wrote: >>> If there will be no need for supporting a request-based target >>> with num_flush_requests > 1, the special handling of flush >>> can be removed. >>> >>> And since there is no such target in the current tree, >>> I don't object if you remove that part of code for good reason. >> >> OK, certainly something to keep in mind. But _really_ knowing the >> multipath FLUSH+FUA performance difference (extra special-case code vs >> none) requires a full FLUSH conversion of request-based DM anyway. >> >> In general, request-based DM's barrier/flush code does carry a certain >> maintenance overhead. It is quite a bit of distracting code in the core >> DM which isn't buying us anything.. so we _could_ just remove it and >> never look back (until we have some specific need for num_flush_requests >>> 1 in rq-based DM). > > So, I'm not objecting to your idea. > Could you please create a patch to remove that? I did that yesterday. Will post the patch soon. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
