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SubjectRe: block_device usage and incorrect block writes


On Jan 18 2007 13:13, Jens Axboe wrote:
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>noop doesn't guarentee that IO will be queued with the device in the
>order in which they are submitted, and it definitely doesn't guarentee
>that the device will process them in the order in which they are
>dispatched. noop being FIFO basically means that it will not sort
>requests. You can still have reordering if one request gets merged with
>another, for instance.

Would it make sense to have a fifo-iosched module that assumes write barriers
between every submission? (No, I am not related to that project.)


-`J'
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