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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:43:27 +0100
From:      Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r280154 - head/usr.sbin/bhyve
Message-ID:  <55075C8F.70001@digiware.nl>
In-Reply-To: <550749FE.5000901@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201503162013.t2GKDQFr009617@svn.freebsd.org> <CAGaYwLcA7t64Z%2B%2BGynBHer%2BT1%2BBHqx5o41juUnh0dKNe-VhfpA@mail.gmail.com> <550749FE.5000901@FreeBSD.org>

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On 16-3-2015 22:24, Alexander Motin wrote:
> On 16.03.2015 23:13, Bryan Venteicher wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org
>> <mailto:mav@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>>     Author: mav
>>     Date: Mon Mar 16 20:13:25 2015
>>     New Revision: 280154
>>     URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/280154
>>
>>     Log:
>>       Report that we may have write cache, and that we do support FLUSH.
>>
>>       FreeBSD guest driver does not use that legacy flag, but Linux
>>     seems does.
>>
>> The guest driver calls it by a prior name: VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE. The write
>> cache stuff went through several iterations, and goes away in VirtIO 1.0
>> specification.
> 
> Yes, I've found that in the driver after the commit. But as I can see
> driver does nothing about it, except reporting via sysctl. I was
> confused by not seeing any use of that flag in data path.
> 

There was a point in time that this Flush was in the way of booting
certain Linux versions. I guess that accepting, but ignoring, which what
I did at a certain point in my code, got me going. Until extra code made
it in the code and the command got us further with our progress in Bhyve.

--WjW



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