We have several block drivers that understand BDRV_REQ_FUA,
and emulate it in the block layer for the rest by a full flush.
But without a way to actually request BDRV_REQ_FUA during a
pass-through blk_pwrite(), FUA-aware block drivers like NBD are
forced to repeat the emulation logic of a full flush regardless
of whether the backend they are writing to could do it more
efficiently.
This patch just wires up a flags argument; followup patches
will actually make use of it in the NBD driver and in qemu-io.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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