# HG changeset patch
# User xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
# Date 1196431468 28800
# Node ID 03e3dbd8acfbdab42ae5452973c4f9d9ff61d87b
# Parent 3ae7e3ab8c510e2fdc6e010b6ca3919eb3e1aedd
Add BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE
This disk operation, implemented on Solaris only so far, asks a backend
to flush the disk caches of the underlying storage if possible, and is
contigent upon the ''feature-flush-cache'' xenstore flag
(although
currently Solaris will always attempt to flush anyway).
Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@sun.com>
diff --git a/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h b/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
--- a/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE 1
/*
* Recognised only if "feature-barrier" is present in backend xenbus
info.
- * The "feature_barrier" node contains a boolean indicating whether
barrier
+ * The "feature-barrier" node contains a boolean indicating whether
barrier
* requests are likely to succeed or fail. Either way, a barrier request
* may fail at any time with BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP if it is unsupported by
* the underlying block-device hardware. The boolean simply indicates whether
@@ -63,6 +63,19 @@
* create the "feature-barrier" node!
*/
#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER 2
+/*
+ * Recognised if "feature-flush-cache" is present in backend xenbus
+ * info. A flush will ask the underlying storage hardware to flush its
+ * non-volatile caches as appropriate. The "feature-flush-cache"
node
+ * contains a boolean indicating whether flush requests are likely to
+ * succeed or fail. Either way, a flush request may fail at any time
+ * with BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP if it is unsupported by the underlying
+ * block-device hardware. The boolean simply indicates whether or not it
+ * is worthwhile for the frontend to attempt flushes. If a backend does
+ * not recognise BLKIF_OP_WRITE_FLUSH_CACHE, it should *not* create the
+ * "feature-flush-cache" node!
+ */
+#define BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE 3
/*
* Maximum scatter/gather segments per request.
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