From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:15:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: target/file: Re-enable optional fd_buffered_io=1 operation
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.32~58
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14b557c19dbe677059243246522da15800ca94f0;p=pandora-kernel.git

target/file: Re-enable optional fd_buffered_io=1 operation

commit b32f4c7ed85c5cee2a21a55c9f59ebc9d57a2463 upstream.

This patch re-adds the ability to optionally run in buffered FILEIO mode
(eg: w/o O_DSYNC) for device backends in order to once again use the
Linux buffered cache as a write-back storage mechanism.

This logic was originally dropped with mainline v3.5-rc commit:

commit a4dff3043c231d57f982af635c9d2192ee40e5ae
Author: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Date:   Wed May 30 16:25:41 2012 -0700

    target/file: Use O_DSYNC by default for FILEIO backends

This difference with this patch is that fd_create_virtdevice() now
forces the explicit setting of emulate_write_cache=1 when buffered FILEIO
operation has been enabled.

(v2: Switch to FDBD_HAS_BUFFERED_IO_WCE + add more detailed
     comment as requested by hch)

Reported-by: Ferry <iscsitmp@bananateam.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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