On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 17:15, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I literally said that. Bah, I misunderstood you. Then yes, if all the writers are always in order, and you don't actually care about exact time matching but only ordering, I guess it might work. But since you need all the same barriers that you would need for just doing it right with a seqcount, it's not much of an advantage, and it doesn't give you consistency for any other kind of action. Linus