On Sat 31-07-10 11:12:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:47:57AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > There is a few caes where we could do that - the fsync without metadata > > > changes above would be the prime example. But there's a lot lower > > > hanging fruit until we get to the point where it's worth trying. > > Umm, I don't understand you. I think that fsync in particular is an > > example where you have to wait and issue cache flush if the drive has > > volatile write cache. > > Of course. What makes you believe anyone said something else? Ok, then I just misunderstood which requests you wanted to send ORDERED. Never mind, I think we agree on what needs to / can be done. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html