jthornber/linux-2.6 — pull request #20 by akiradeveloper (2014-08-31 10:53:51+00:00)
Title: [writeboost] Remove barrier_deadline_ms

In writeboost, Processing of write barriers is deferred.

Now there are two stages, 1) tunable deferment by timer which
queues a work and then 2) the work is dispatched.

This patch removes the first stage.

dm-thin and dm-cache do almost the same thing but they don't have such
complicated mechanism but only the second stage.
As a result of having the first stage, the code is complicated and hard
to understand, and also complicates the user interface.
I think of removing this tunable for this reason.

Signed-off-by: Akira Hayakawa

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This patch is for http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2014-July/msg00150.html