On 05/14/2014 05:11 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 15:51 -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
Whether this is set or not is important for whether good performance is
possible, when using the block device as a backstore for the kernel
target. Exposing this will let kernel target configuration tools provide
this information to the user when configuring LIO targets.
The whole point is that IBLOCK detects if WCE is enabled on the
underlying block_device at creation time using these same flags, and
sets its own WCE bit automatically without any user interaction.
The user should not be allowed to change the WCE bit to something
different from what the underlying block_device is reporting.
That said, I don't see the point of this patch for target related logic.
My understanding is that a LIO target backed by a block device that
doesn't support REQ_FLUSH will have subpar performance.
Userspace configuration tools could potentially warn the user if this is
the case.
This information doesn't appear to be currently available to userspace.
Regards -- Andy
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