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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Georg Sch?nberger <g.schoenberger@xortex.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Linux Block mailing list <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	XFS mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	Linux FS-Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: XFS and nobarrier with SSDs
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 02:27:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151214102750.GA29192@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <566E978E.2070502@xortex.com>

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:18:54AM +0000, Georg Sch?nberger wrote:
> > Or to phrase it
> > differently:  If nobarrier makes a difference skipping it is not safe.
> I do not fully understand that sentence, what do you mean by "makes a 
> difference" and "skipping is not safe"?

The rule of thumb is: if nobarrier makes your workload run faster you
should not be using it, aka: don't use it. 

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-14 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-12 10:24 XFS and nobarrier with SSDs Georg Schönberger
2015-12-12 12:26 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-12-14  6:43   ` Georg Schönberger
2015-12-14  8:38     ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-12-14  9:58       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-12-14 10:18         ` Georg Schönberger
2015-12-14 10:27           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-12-14 10:34             ` Georg Schönberger
2015-12-14 16:39               ` Eric Sandeen
2015-12-26 23:44             ` Linda Walsh
2015-12-14 11:48 ` Emmanuel Florac

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