Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:02:49 -0400 | From | Ric Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: replace barrier with sequenced flush |
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On 08/20/2010 12:00 PM, Chris Mason wrote: > 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
writeback_cache.txt is certainly the least confusing :)
ric
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