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.
