[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] What are the semantics of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER?
What does BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER mean precisely? Presumably it prevents writes from being reordered past it. But does it also imply a flush, in that all previous writes are on stable storage? If not, is there another operation which does guarantee that? If the backend doesn't support barriers, is there any other way for a guest to force writes to stable storage? How does blktap(2) deal with devices with volatile write caches? Does it generate its own barriers/flushes/FUA requests to push things out to stable storage? Thanks, J _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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