Re: [PATCH 08/11] block: rename barrier/ordered to flush
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2010-08-18 06:23:43
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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2010-08-18 06:23:43
Also in:
dm-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-ide, linux-scsi, lkml
Hello, On 08/17/2010 07:08 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:23:55PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:quoted
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.
Hmm... alright, I'll rip it out. Thanks. -- tejun