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SubjectRe: Mount ext3 with barrier=1 doesn't send real barrier bio?
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>> Milan Broz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I run some barrier tests over device-mapper (which currently doesn't
>>> support barrier bio at all) and even if I set barrier=1 in ext3 mount,
>>> there is never any bio with barrier flag... (in 2.6.27-rc)
>>>
>>> How is the barrier=1 flag supposed to work in ext3 (JBD) now?
>>>
>> Milan, you're right. Ric saw this same strange behavior when doing some
>> benchmarking with and without barriers; Chris noticed the change in
>> submit_bh; I was about to write up a similar patch to what you've sent
>> already. Jens, does Milan's fix look good to you?
>>
>
> Yep looks good, thanks a lot Milan! I'll send in the patch, unless I'm
> badly mistaken we need it for 2.6.26-stable as well.
>
>

I think we definitely need it there as well, thanks!

Ric



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