Make cache invalidation a soft error

[fio.git] / filesetup.c

diff --git a/filesetup.c b/filesetup.c
index abea1e60b726a8d82f503b054c83d76a66470210..1c529792afc952defb9f1422b8d1a953846b3f95 100644 (file)
--- a/filesetup.c
+++ b/filesetup.c
@@ -395,9 +395,6 @@ static int __file_invalidate_cache(struct thread_data *td, struct fio_file *f,
        dprint(FD_IO, "invalidate cache %s: %llu/%llu\n", f->file_name, off,
                                                                len);
 
-       /*
-        * FIXME: add blockdev flushing too
-        */
        if (f->mmap_ptr) {
                ret = posix_madvise(f->mmap_ptr, f->mmap_sz, POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED);
 #ifdef FIO_MADV_FREE
@@ -419,15 +416,18 @@ static int __file_invalidate_cache(struct thread_data *td, struct fio_file *f,
        } else if (f->filetype == FIO_TYPE_CHAR || f->filetype == FIO_TYPE_PIPE)
                ret = 0;
 
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               td_verror(td, errno, "invalidate_cache");
-               return 1;
-       } else if (ret > 0) {
-               td_verror(td, ret, "invalidate_cache");
-               return 1;
+       /*
+        * Cache flushing isn't a fatal condition, and we know it will
+        * happen on some platforms where we don't have the proper
+        * function to flush eg block device caches. So just warn and
+        * continue on our way.
+        */
+       if (ret) {
+               log_info("fio: cache invalidation of %s failed: %s\n", f->file_name, strerror(errno));
+               ret = 0;
        }
 
-       return ret;
+       return 0;
 
 }