Hi Oliver,
can you test the patch below? It restores the previous behavior if
the device did not have a volatile write cache. I think at least
for raid0 and raid1 without bitmap the new behavior actually is correct
and better, but it will need fixes for other modes. If the underlying
devices di
hi, Christoph Hellwig,
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 01:57:35AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> can you test the patch below? It restores the previous behavior if
> the device did not have a volatile write cache. I think at least
> for raid0 and raid1 without bitmap the new behavior
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 10:10:49AM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand this test request. as in title, we see a good
> improvement of aim7 for 1122c0c1cc, and we didn't observe other issues for
> this commit.
The improvement suggests we are not sending cache flushes when we shoul
hi, Christoph Hellwig,
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:35:37AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This is odd to say at least. Any chance you can check the value
> of /sys/block/$DEVICE/queue/rotational for the relevant device before
> and after this commit? And is this an ATA or NVMe SSD?
>
yeah, a
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 02:11:11PM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> hi, Christoph Hellwig,
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:35:37AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This is odd to say at least. Any chance you can check the value
> > of /sys/block/$DEVICE/queue/rotational for the relevant device befor
