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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS and write barriers.
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:11:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17927.7599.592215.21546@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Friday March 23

On Friday March 23, hch@infradead.org wrote:
> 
> That would be really bad.  XFS metadata buffers can have multiple bios
> and retrying a single one would be rather difficult.
> 

But would you have multiple bios for a write that had BIO_RW_BARRIER
set?  That would seem .... odd.

NeilBrown

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23  1:26 XFS and write barriers Neil Brown
2007-03-23  5:30 ` David Chinner
2007-03-23  7:49   ` Neil Brown
2007-03-25  4:17     ` David Chinner
2007-03-25 23:21       ` Neil Brown
2007-03-26  3:14         ` David Chinner
2007-03-26  4:27           ` Neil Brown
2007-03-26  9:04             ` David Chinner
2007-03-29 14:56               ` Martin Steigerwald
2007-03-29 15:18                 ` David Chinner
2007-03-29 16:49                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2007-03-23  9:50   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-25  3:51     ` David Chinner
2007-03-25 23:58       ` Neil Brown
2007-03-26  1:11     ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-03-23  6:20 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-03-23  8:00   ` Neil Brown
2007-03-25  3:19     ` David Chinner
2007-03-26  0:01       ` Neil Brown
2007-03-26  3:58         ` David Chinner
2007-03-27  3:58       ` Timothy Shimmin

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