Re: [Nbd] [PATCH][V3] nbd: add multi-connection support

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:03:50AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> So think of it like normal disks with multiple channels.  We don't send flushes 
> down all the hwq's to make sure they are clear, we leave that decision up to the 
> application (usually a FS of course).

Well, when I asked earlier, Christoph said[1] that blk-mq assumes that
when a FLUSH is sent over one channel, and the reply comes in, that all
commands which have been received, regardless of which channel they were
received over, have reched disk.

[1] Message-ID: <20160915122304.GA15501@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It is impossible for nbd to make such a guarantee, due to head-of-line
blocking on TCP.

[...]
> perhaps we could add a flag later that says send all the flushes down
> all the connections for the paranoid, it should be relatively
> straightforward to do.  Thanks,

That's not an unreasonable approach, I guess.

-- 
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       people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
       and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
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