From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: Patch to issue pure flushes directly (Was: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] ext4: Coordinate data-only flush requests sent) by fsync
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 08:45:24 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 06:54:49PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> This patch seemed like a good idea to me; I just checked linux-next,
> and looks like nothing like this is planned to be merged.  Just
> thought I would send a prod-o-gram to see what the current thinking
> was around adding something like this.

I haven't really gotten any feedback on the patch, so it fell on the
floor for a while.  I've managed to get some big system resources to
test the impact of it, and once I've got numbers I'll resend it as
separate patches for scsi and the block layer.