[PATCH 11/11] xfs: do not flush data workqueues in xfs_flush_buftarg
Alex Elder
aelder at sgi.com
Tue Oct 11 14:04:31 CDT 2011
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:52 -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 at lst.de>
Looks OK to me.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>
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