linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] blktrace: treat flush as barrier

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Date:	Fri, 27 May 2011 09:57:41 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] blktrace: treat flush as barrier

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:11:22PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> Since BARRIER requests have been converted to FLUSH/FUA, it would be
>> better for blktrace to recognize FLUSH requests as BARRIER for the
>> backward-compatibility IMHO.
>
> I'd rather see new flags for them.  F and U maybe?

Somehow I'm not surprised by your F and U suggestion -- appropriate on
multiple levels :)
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