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[2/5,UPDATED] virtio_blk: drop REQ_HARDBARRIER support

Message ID 4C6D4A4D.7090501@kernel.org
State Not Applicable
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Tejun Heo Aug. 19, 2010, 3:14 p.m. UTC
Remove now unused REQ_HARDBARRIER support.  virtio_blk already
supports REQ_FLUSH and the usefulness of REQ_FUA for virtio_blk is
questionable at this point, so there's nothing else to do to support
new REQ_FLUSH/FUA interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
REQ_FUA support dropped as suggested by Christoph.

 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   17 ++++-------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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Index: block/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
===================================================================
--- block.orig/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ block/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -128,9 +128,6 @@  static bool do_req(struct request_queue
 		}
 	}

-	if (vbr->req->cmd_flags & REQ_HARDBARRIER)
-		vbr->out_hdr.type |= VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER;
-
 	sg_set_buf(&vblk->sg[out++], &vbr->out_hdr, sizeof(vbr->out_hdr));

 	/*
@@ -388,13 +385,7 @@  static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struc
 	vblk->disk->driverfs_dev = &vdev->dev;
 	index++;

-	/*
-	 * If the FLUSH feature is supported we do have support for
-	 * flushing a volatile write cache on the host.  Use that to
-	 * implement write barrier support; otherwise, we must assume
-	 * that the host does not perform any kind of volatile write
-	 * caching.
-	 */
+	/* configure queue flush support */
 	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH))
 		blk_queue_flush(q, REQ_FLUSH);

@@ -515,9 +506,9 @@  static const struct virtio_device_id id_
 };

 static unsigned int features[] = {
-	VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SIZE_MAX,
-	VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY, VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE,
-	VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI, VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH, VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SIZE_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY,
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI,
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH, VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY
 };

 /*