On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:48:19PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > Anthony, > > please pull this small patch series that allows xen_disk to be used > > correctly with NATIVE_AIO and O_DIRECT. > > > > This series should be backported to the stable branch too. > > Any plans to add BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE support to xen_disk? Unlike > the old bnroken Xen barrier scheme this actually implements pure flushes > for fdatasync or blockdevice O_SYNC I/O corectly, and for modern Linux > kernels it actually will be quite a bit faster, too.
Yeah, that's a good suggestion, it shouldn't be hard either.
