On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:57:57 +0900 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Queue idling is used for the anticipation of immediate > sequencial I/O's but md_super_write() is a kind of one- > shot operation, coupled with md_super_wait(), so the > idling in this case will be just a waste of time. > > Specifying REQ_NOIDLE prevents it. Instead of adding > the flag to submit_bio() directly, use pre-defined > macro WRITE_FLUSH_FUA. > > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c > index d97a62534798..8650e9a0ce7c 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/md.c > +++ b/drivers/md/md.c > @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ void md_super_write(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_rdev_t *rdev, > bio->bi_end_io = super_written; > > atomic_inc(&mddev->pending_writes); > - submit_bio(REQ_WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA, bio); > + submit_bio(WRITE_FLUSH_FUA, bio); > } > > void md_super_wait(mddev_t *mddev) Applied, thanks. NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html