[RFC 00/11] DAX fsynx/msync support

[Jens Axboe]

On 11/05/2015 01:33 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> Des xfs rely on this model for correctness?  If so, I'd say we've got a
>> problem
>
> No, it doesn't. The XFS integrity model doesn't trust the IO layers
> to tell the truth about IO ordering and completion or for it's
> developers to fully understand how IO layer ordering works. :P

That's good, because the storage developers simplified the model so that 
fs developers would be able to get and use it.

> i.e. we wait for full completions of all dependent IO before issuing
> flushes or log writes that use REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA semantics to ensure
> the dependent IOs are fully caught by the cache flushes...

... which is what you are supposed to do, that's how it works.

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Jens Axboe