[PATCH 11/11] xfs: do not flush data workqueues in xfs_flush_buftarg
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Tue Oct 11 17:35:25 CDT 2011
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 at lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
--
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
More information about the xfs
mailing list