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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in md write barrier support?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:22:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094718179.2801.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909080612.GJ1737@suse.de>

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> Precisely, it's always possible to just drop queueing depth to zero at
> that point. If I2O really does reorder around the cache flush (this
> seems broken...),

why does this seem broken? semantics of "cache flush guarantees that all
io submitted prior to it hits the spindle" are quite sane imo; no
guarantee of later submitted IO.. compare the unix "sync" command; same
level of semantics.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-09  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-03 17:24 bug in md write barrier support? Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04  0:56 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-04  8:21   ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-06  1:36     ` Neil Brown
2004-09-08  9:23       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-08 13:35         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-08 15:46           ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-08 22:21             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-09  8:06               ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-09  8:22                 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-09-09  8:29                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-09 12:51                     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-09 14:34                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-12 17:13               ` Rogier Wolff

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