From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>,
"nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net"
<nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:46:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160915114610.GA6411@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <751994A2-653B-4201-8210-A31495804788@alex.org.uk>
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:43:35PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> Sure, it's at:
>
> https://github.com/yoe/nbd/blob/master/doc/proto.md#ordering-of-messages-and-writes
>
> and that link takes you to the specific section.
>
> The treatment of FLUSH and FUA is meant to mirror exactly the
> linux block layer (or rather how the linux block layer was a few
> years ago). I even asked on LKML to verify a few points.
Linux never expected ordering on the wire. Before 2010 we had barriers
in the kernel that provided ordering to the caller, but we never
required it from the protocol / hardware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 21:12 [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Josef Bacik
2016-09-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] nbd: convert to blkmq Josef Bacik
2016-09-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] nbd: don't shutdown sock with irq's disabled Josef Bacik
2016-09-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] nbd: use flags instead of bool Josef Bacik
2016-09-09 1:20 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-09 13:55 ` Jens Axboe
2016-09-09 16:04 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-09 16:11 ` Jens Axboe
2016-09-09 16:15 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-09 16:20 ` Jens Axboe
2016-09-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] nbd: allow block mq to deal with timeouts Josef Bacik
2016-09-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] nbd: add multi-connection support Josef Bacik
2016-09-10 7:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-12 13:11 ` Josef Bacik
2016-09-09 20:02 ` [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-09 20:36 ` Josef Bacik
2016-09-09 20:55 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-09 23:00 ` Josef Bacik
2016-09-09 23:37 ` Jens Axboe
2016-09-15 10:49 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 11:09 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 11:29 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 11:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 11:46 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:01 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:26 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 12:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:04 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 11:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 13:34 ` Eric Blake
2016-09-15 14:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-15 15:23 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 21:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-15 15:25 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 11:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 11:43 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-09-15 11:56 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 11:55 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 12:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:11 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 12:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:28 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 12:21 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 12:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:33 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 12:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:39 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 12:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 12:44 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 13:17 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 13:57 ` Josef Bacik
2016-09-15 15:17 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 16:08 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 16:27 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-09-15 16:42 ` Alex Bligh
2016-09-15 19:02 ` Eric Blake
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