On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:09:28PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: > A more general point is that with multiple queues requests > may be processed in a different order even by those servers that > currently process the requests in strict order, or in something > similar to strict order. The server is permitted by the spec > (save as mandated by NBD_CMD_FLUSH and NBD_CMD_FLAG_FUA) to > process commands out of order anyway, but I suspect this has > to date been little tested. The Linux kernel does not assume any synchroniztion between block I/O commands. So any sort of synchronization a protocol does is complete overkill for us. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html