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lguest: barrier me harder
Impact: barrier correctness in example launcher I doubt either lguest user will complain about performance. Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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@ -1630,6 +1630,13 @@ static bool service_io(struct device *dev)
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/* OK, so we noted that it was pretty poor to use an fdatasync as a
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* barrier. But Christoph Hellwig points out that we need a sync
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* *afterwards* as well: "Barriers specify no reordering to the front
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* or the back." And Jens Axboe confirmed it, so here we are: */
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if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER)
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fdatasync(vblk->fd);
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/* We can't trigger an IRQ, because we're not the Launcher. It does
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* that when we tell it we're done. */
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add_used(dev->vq, head, wlen);
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