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Nicholas Bellinger authored
commit b32f4c7e 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 a4dff304 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> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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