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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] barriers: block layer preparations
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:38:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505153809.GC31100@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A00446B.7070404@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> An alternative approach is to add a new op, bdrv_aio_barrier(), 
> submitted immediately after the write.  It's probably more complicated 
> overall.

Is it ok to submit a zero-length bdrv_aio_writev(), when you need a
barrier without data?

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-05 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-05 12:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] write barrier support Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 12:08 ` [Qemu-devel] barriers: block layer preparations Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 13:51   ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-05 15:38     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-05-05 15:49       ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-05 16:00         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 20:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 22:49       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 12:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] barriers: block-raw-posix barrier support Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 12:33   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 13:29     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 16:00       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05 12:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] barriers: virtio Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-05 13:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] write barrier support Avi Kivity
2009-05-05 21:00   ` Christoph Hellwig

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