Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269371AbUIIIa7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:30:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269372AbUIIIa7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:30:59 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:16558 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269371AbUIIIa4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:30:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:29:22 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Alan Cox , Neil Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bug in md write barrier support? Message-ID: <20040909082922.GN1737@suse.de> References: <20040903172414.GA6771@lst.de> <16697.4817.621088.474648@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20040904082121.GB2343@suse.de> <16699.48946.29579.495180@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20040908092309.GD2258@suse.de> <1094650500.11723.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040908154608.GN2258@suse.de> <1094682098.12280.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040909080612.GJ1737@suse.de> <1094718179.2801.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094718179.2801.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 22 On Thu, Sep 09 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Precisely, it's always possible to just drop queueing depth to zero at > > that point. If I2O really does reorder around the cache flush (this > > seems broken...), > > why does this seem broken? semantics of "cache flush guarantees that all > io submitted prior to it hits the spindle" are quite sane imo; no > guarantee of later submitted IO.. compare the unix "sync" command; same > level of semantics. Depends on your angle, I think it breaks the principle of least surprise. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/