Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Wed Aug 10 2011 - 09:54:03 EST


Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Add FLUSH/FUA support to blktrace. As FLUSH precedes WRITE and/or
> FUA follows WRITE, use the same 'F' flag for both cases and
> distinguish them by their (relative) position. The end results
> look like (other flags might be shown also):
>
> - WRITE: W
> - WRITE_FLUSH: FW
> - WRITE_FUA: WF
> - WRITE_FLUSH_FUA: FWF

I was hoping we'd go with Jens' suggestion of relacing W with F for flush,
and have FUA appear after that. However, I can live with this, so if
others like it, it's fine by me.

Thanks for doing this, Namhyung!

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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