Re: [dm-devel] Patch to issue pure flushes directly (Was: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] ext4: Coordinate data-only flush requests sent) by fsync

[Christoph Hellwig <hch lst de>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 06:54:49PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> This patch seemed like a good idea to me; I just checked linux-next,
> and looks like nothing like this is planned to be merged.  Just
> thought I would send a prod-o-gram to see what the current thinking
> was around adding something like this.

I haven't really gotten any feedback on the patch, so it fell on the
floor for a while.  I've managed to get some big system resources to
test the impact of it, and once I've got numbers I'll resend it as
separate patches for scsi and the block layer.