On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:03:50AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> So think of it like normal disks with multiple channels. We don't send flushes
> down all the hwq's to make sure they are clear, we leave that decision up to the
> application (usually a FS of course).
Well, when I asked earlier, Christoph said[1] that blk-mq assumes that
when a FLUSH is sent over one channel, and the reply comes in, that all
commands which have been received, regardless of which channel they were
received over, have reched disk.
[1] Message-ID: <20160915122304.GA15501@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It is impossible for nbd to make such a guarantee, due to head-of-line
blocking on TCP.
[...]
> perhaps we could add a flag later that says send all the flushes down
> all the connections for the paranoid, it should be relatively
> straightforward to do. Thanks,
That's not an unreasonable approach, I guess.
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
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