Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 1/2] blk-flush: fix rq->flush.seq for post-flush requests

[Chengming Zhou]

On 2023/7/11 19:06, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> On 2023/7/10 21:30, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:47:04PM +0800, chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> If the policy == (REQ_FSEQ_DATA | REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH), it means that the
>>> data sequence and post-flush sequence need to be done for this request.
>>>
>>> The rq->flush.seq should record what sequences have been done (or don't
>>> need to be done). So in this case, pre-flush doesn't need to be done,
>>> we should init rq->flush.seq to REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH not REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH.
>>>
>>> Of course, this doesn't cause any problem in fact, since pre-flush and
>>> post-flush sequence do the same thing for now.
>>
>> I wonder if it really doesn't cause any problems, but the change for
>> sure looks good:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>>
>> It should probably go before your other flush optimizations and maybe
>> grow a fixes tag.
> 
> Ok, will add a Fixes tag and send it as a separate patch since it's a bug fix.
> 

Well, I should put it in that series before other flush optimizations instead.