On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> wrote: > On Mon 16-11-15 14:37:14, Jan Kara wrote: [..] > But a question: Won't it be better to do sfence + pcommit only in response > to REQ_FLUSH request and don't do it after each write? I'm not sure how > expensive these instructions are but in theory it could be a performance > win, couldn't it? For filesystems this is enough wrt persistency > guarantees...
We would need to gather the performance data... The expectation is that the cache flushing is more expensive than the sfence + pcommit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
