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Re: [Nbd] [RESEND][PATCH 0/5] nbd improvements



On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 01:29:36PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Yes, and that is why I was asking about this. If the write barriers
> are expected to be shared across connections, we have a problem. If,
> however, they are not, then it doesn't matter that the commands may be
> processed out of order.

There is no such thing as a write barrier in the Linux kernel.  We'd
much prefer protocols not to introduce any pointless synchronization
if we can avoid it.



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