Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757949Ab0HQRKV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:10:21 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:55039 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753088Ab0HQRKT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:10:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:08:57 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Hellwig , jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@suse.de, tytso@mit.edu, chris.mason@oracle.com, swhiteho@redhat.com, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp, dm-devel@redhat.com, vst@vlnb.net, jack@suse.cz, rwheeler@redhat.com, hare@suse.de, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] block: rename barrier/ordered to flush Message-ID: <20100817170857.GA15297@lst.de> References: <1281616891-5691-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1281616891-5691-9-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20100817132646.GA3577@lst.de> <4C6AB79B.2040303@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6AB79B.2040303@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 13 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:23:55PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Yeap, agreed. I couldn't really understand why the the sequence > needed to be atomic for ide in the first place so just left it alone. > Do you understand why it tried to be atomic? I think initial drafs of the barrier specification talked about atomic sequences. Except for that I can't think of any reason. -- 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/