[dm-devel] [PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: replace barrier with sequenced flush
Chris Mason
chris.mason at oracle.com
Fri Aug 20 16:00:09 UTC 2010
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:18:07AM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> On 08/20/2010 09:22 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >FYI: here's a little writeup to document the new cache flushing scheme,
> >intended to replace Documentation/block/barriers.txt. Any good
> >suggestion for a filename in the kernel tree?
> >
> >---
>
> I was thinking that we might be better off using the "durable
> writes" term more since it is well documented (at least in the
> database world, where it is the "D" in ACID properties). Maybe
> "durable_writes_support.txt" ?
sata_lies.txt?
Ok, maybe writeback_cache.txt?
-chris
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