On Tue, 30 October 2007 23:19:48 +0900, Dongjun Shin wrote: > On 10/30/07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Not sure. Why shouldn't you be able to reorder the hints provided that > > they don't overlap with read/write bios for the same block? > > You're right. The bios can be reordered if they don't overlap with hint. I would keep things simpler. Bios can be reordered, full stop. If an erase and a write overlap, the caller (filesystem?) has to add a barrier. Jörn -- My second remark is that our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
