Re: [PATCH 08/11] block: rename barrier/ordered to flush

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 08/17/2010 07:08 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:23:55PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Yeap, agreed.  I couldn't really understand why the the sequence
>> needed to be atomic for ide in the first place so just left it alone.
>> Do you understand why it tried to be atomic?
> 
> I think initial drafs of the barrier specification talked about atomic
> sequences.  Except for that I can't think of any reason.

Hmm... alright, I'll rip it out.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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