Re: [PATCH] block: Document lack of ordering ofsubmit_bio/generic_make_request

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Sep 13 2012 - 14:14:34 EST


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:40:30PM +1000, joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It is worth noting here that the block layer makes no attempt
> to preserve the order of requests and that upper layers like
> journaling filesystems that require such ordering need to do so
> explicity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you.

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tejun
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