Thread (109 messages) 109 messages, 19 authors, 2011-01-14

Re: [PATCH 08/11] block: rename barrier/ordered to flush

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2010-08-17 17:08:57
Also in: dm-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-ide, linux-scsi, lkml 

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:23:55PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
Yeap, agreed.  I couldn't really understand why the the sequence
needed to be atomic for ide in the first place so just left it alone.
Do you understand why it tried to be atomic?
I think initial drafs of the barrier specification talked about atomic
sequences.  Except for that I can't think of any reason.
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