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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 3/3] virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk
On 07/30/2012 09:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:31:06AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> You only need to add REQ_FLUSH support. The virtio-blk protocol does
>> not support REQ_FUA, because there's no easy way to do it in userspace.
>
> A bio-based driver needs to handle both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA as it does
> not get the sequencing of REQ_FUA into REQ_FLUSH that request based drivers
> can request. To what the REQ_FUA request gets translated is a different story.

I just sent out V5 to support both REQ_FLUSH AND REQ_FUA.
Thanks, Christoph!

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Asias


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