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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next prev parent 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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