Re: [PATCH 1/2] blktrace: treat flush as barrier

From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Fri May 27 2011 - 09:58:14 EST


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:11:22PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> Since BARRIER requests have been converted to FLUSH/FUA, it would be
>> better for blktrace to recognize FLUSH requests as BARRIER for the
>> backward-compatibility IMHO.
>
> I'd rather see new flags for them.  F and U maybe?

Somehow I'm not surprised by your F and U suggestion -- appropriate on
multiple levels :)
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