Re: [PATCH 11/11] xfs: do not flush data workqueues in xfs_flush_buftarg

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:52:53PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> When we call xfs_flush_buftarg (generally from sync or umount) it already
> is too late to flush the data workqueues, as I/O completion is signalled
> for them and we are thus already done with the data we would flush here.
> 
> There are places where flushing them might be useful, but the current
> sync interface doesn't give us that opportunity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

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