The semantics of bio-based dm were changed recently in the case of
suspend with "--nolockfs" but without "--noflush".
Before 2.6.30, I/Os submitted before the suspend invocation were always
flushed. From 2.6.30 onwards, I/Os submitted before the suspend
invocation might not be flushed. (For details, see
http://marc.info/?t=123994433400003&r=1&w=2)
This patch brings the behaviour of request-based dm into line with
bio-based dm, simplifying the code and preparing for a subsequent patch
that will wait for all in_flight I/Os to complete without stopping
request_queue and use dm_wait_for_completion() for it.
This change in semantics simplifies the suspend code as follows:
o Suspend is implemented as stopping request_queue
in request-based dm, and all I/Os are queued in the request_queue
even after suspend is invoked.
o In the old semantics, we had to track whether I/Os were
queued before or after the suspend invocation, so a special
barrier-like request called 'suspend marker' was introduced.
o With the new semantics, we don't need to flush any I/O
so we can remove the marker and the code related to the marker
handling and I/O flushing.
After removing this codes, the suspend sequence is now:
1. Flush all I/Os by lock_fs() if needed.
2. Stop dispatching any I/O by stopping the request_queue.
3. Wait for all in-flight I/Os to be completed or requeued.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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