On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 05:25:41PM +0100, John Garry wrote: > On 23/07/2025 14:51, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote: > > > > No, its just something i hardcoded for that particular run. This patch > > > > doesn't enforce hardware only atomic writes > > > If we are to test this for XFS then we need to ensure that HW atomics are > > > available. > > Why is that? Now with the verification step happening after writes, > > software atomic writes should also pass this test since there are no > > racing writes to the verify reads. > > Sure, but racing software atomic writes against other software atomic writes > is not safe. > > Thanks, > John What do you mean by not safe? Does it mean the test can fail?
