[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen block backend driver.

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> +#define WRITE_BARRIER        (REQ_WRITE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)

Any in case you want to keep usingthis POS out of tree you really need
to fix this.  REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA is not equivalent to the old barrier
semantics that the Xen disk protocol exported to the guest.  You need
to drain the whole queue of outstanding I/Os as some old guest (at least
those using reiserfs, e.g. old SLES) rely on it.


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