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From: Eric Mei <meijia@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: write barrier in RAID5
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:24:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <551C37E6.6090201@gmail.com> (raw)

I can see how FUA is handled, but REQ_FLUSH seems problematic. My 
understanding of REQ_FLUSH semantics: all requests before the flush 
request must *complete* before the flush request complete. For IO remap 
layer like MD, we need to guarantee all previous requests are 
*submitted* to component devices before submitting the flush request. Is 
that correct?

If so why I don't see the code which make sure the pending write 
requests in stripe cache are processed & submitted before 
submit_flushes() get called? Thanks

Eric

             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01 18:24 Eric Mei [this message]
2015-04-07  1:25 ` write barrier in RAID5 NeilBrown

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