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Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 08/11] block: rename barrier/ordered to flush
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch lst de>
- To: Tejun Heo <tj kernel org>
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch infradead org>, tytso mit edu, linux-scsi vger kernel org, jaxboe fusionio com, jack suse cz, linux-kernel vger kernel org, swhiteho redhat com, linux-raid vger kernel org, linux-ide vger kernel org, dm-devel redhat com, James Bottomley suse de, konishi ryusuke lab ntt co jp, linux-fsdevel vger kernel org, vst vlnb net, rwheeler redhat com, Christoph Hellwig <hch lst de>, chris mason oracle com
- Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 08/11] block: rename barrier/ordered to flush
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:08:57 +0200
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.
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