Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751861Ab0HRGXn (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:23:43 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:55598 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750903Ab0HRGXh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:23:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6B7C6F.1020809@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:23:43 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: 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 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> <20100817170857.GA15297@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20100817170857.GA15297@lst.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 22 Hello, On 08/17/2010 07:08 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Hmm... alright, I'll rip it out. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/