If -EOPNOTSUPP was returned and the request was a barrier request, retry it without barrier. Retry all regions (if there was just one region returning -EOPNOTSUPP), for now, barriers are submitted only for 1-region requests, so it doesn't matter. In the future, this can be fine-grained to retry only -EOPNOTSUPPed regions. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka --- drivers/md/dm-io.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.29-rc1-devel/drivers/md/dm-io.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.29-rc1-devel.orig/drivers/md/dm-io.c 2009-01-22 21:09:28.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.29-rc1-devel/drivers/md/dm-io.c 2009-01-22 21:09:37.000000000 +0100 @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client * return -EIO; } +retry: io.error_bits = 0; io.eopnotsupp_bits = 0; atomic_set(&io.count, 1); /* see dispatch_io() */ @@ -382,6 +383,11 @@ static int sync_io(struct dm_io_client * } set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + if (io.eopnotsupp_bits && (rw & (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))) { + rw &= ~(1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER); + goto retry; + } + if (error_bits) *error_bits = io.error_bits;