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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Rusty Russell 2009-03-30 21:55:25 -06:00
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@ -1630,6 +1630,13 @@ static bool service_io(struct device *dev)
}
}
/* OK, so we noted that it was pretty poor to use an fdatasync as a
* barrier. But Christoph Hellwig points out that we need a sync
* *afterwards* as well: "Barriers specify no reordering to the front
* or the back." And Jens Axboe confirmed it, so here we are: */
if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER)
fdatasync(vblk->fd);
/* We can't trigger an IRQ, because we're not the Launcher. It does
* that when we tell it we're done. */
add_used(dev->vq, head, wlen);