[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: clarify the meaning of BDRV_O_NOCACHE

[Christoph Hellwig]

Change BDRV_O_NOCACHE to only imply bypassing the host OS file cache,
but no writeback semantics.  All existing callers are changed to also
specify BDRV_O_CACHE_WB to give them writeback semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <address@hidden>

Index: qemu/block.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/block.c   2011-03-08 20:11:08.188219978 +0100
+++ qemu/block.c        2011-03-08 20:12:44.971718742 +0100
@@ -439,13 +439,7 @@ static int bdrv_open_common(BlockDriverS
     bs->drv = drv;
     bs->opaque = qemu_mallocz(drv->instance_size);
 
-    /*
-     * Yes, BDRV_O_NOCACHE aka O_DIRECT means we have to present a
-     * write cache to the guest.  We do need the fdatasync to flush
-     * out transactions for block allocations, and we maybe have a
-     * volatile write cache in our backing device to deal with.
-     */
-    if (flags & (BDRV_O_CACHE_WB|BDRV_O_NOCACHE))
+    if (flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)
         bs->enable_write_cache = 1;
 
     /*
Index: qemu/block/raw-posix.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/block/raw-posix.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.200220692 +0100
+++ qemu/block/raw-posix.c      2011-03-08 20:11:22.229218596 +0100
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverSt
      * and O_DIRECT for no caching. */
     if ((bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE))
         s->open_flags |= O_DIRECT;
-    else if (!(bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))
+    if (!(bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))
         s->open_flags |= O_DSYNC;
 
     s->fd = -1;
Index: qemu/block/raw-win32.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/block/raw-win32.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.212218227 +0100
+++ qemu/block/raw-win32.c      2011-03-08 20:11:22.237218180 +0100
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ static int raw_open(BlockDriverState *bs
     }
 
     overlapped = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL;
-    if ((flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE))
-        overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING | FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH;
-    else if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))
+    if (flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)
+        overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING;
+    if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))
         overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH;
     s->hfile = CreateFile(filename, access_flags,
                           FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
@@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ static int hdev_open(BlockDriverState *b
     create_flags = OPEN_EXISTING;
 
     overlapped = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL;
-    if ((flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE))
-        overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING | FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH;
-    else if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))
+    if (flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)
+        overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING;
+    if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB))
         overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH;
     s->hfile = CreateFile(filename, access_flags,
                           FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL,
Index: qemu/blockdev.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/blockdev.c        2011-03-08 20:11:08.220217606 +0100
+++ qemu/blockdev.c     2011-03-08 20:11:22.237218180 +0100
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, in
 
     if ((buf = qemu_opt_get(opts, "cache")) != NULL) {
         if (!strcmp(buf, "off") || !strcmp(buf, "none")) {
-            bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
+            bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB;
         } else if (!strcmp(buf, "writeback")) {
             bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_CACHE_WB;
         } else if (!strcmp(buf, "unsafe")) {
Index: qemu/qemu-io.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/qemu-io.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.232220650 +0100
+++ qemu/qemu-io.c      2011-03-08 20:11:22.245232398 +0100
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ open_f(int argc, char **argv)
                        flags |= BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT;
                        break;
                case 'n':
-                       flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
+                       flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB;
                        break;
                case 'r':
                        readonly = 1;
@@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                        flags |= BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT;
                        break;
                case 'n':
-                       flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
+                       flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB;
                        break;
                case 'c':
                        add_user_command(optarg);
Index: qemu/qemu-nbd.c
===================================================================
--- qemu.orig/qemu-nbd.c        2011-03-08 20:11:08.244217894 +0100
+++ qemu/qemu-nbd.c     2011-03-08 20:11:22.253267426 +0100
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
             flags |= BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT;
             break;
         case 'n':
-            flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
+            flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB;
             break;
         case 'b':
             bindto = optarg;