Re: Proposal: B_ARRIER (addresses wapbl performance?)

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:37:46PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
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>> My biggest concern with the tag use is that your barrier mixes in with 
>> ALL
>> the outstanding i/o. Even reads.
>
> Not just "i/o"... even commands like inquiry....

No -- inquiries, reservations and the like are "implicit HEAD OF QUEUE"
commands, at least as I read the standard.

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