Re: [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Introduce new O_HOT and O_COLD flags

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

On 04/19/2012 03:20 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> As I had brought up during one of the lightning talks at the Linux
> Storage and Filesystem workshop, I am interested in introducing two new
> open flags, O_HOT and O_COLD.  These flags are passed down to the
> individual file system's inode operations' create function, and the file
> system can use these flags as a hint regarding whether the file is
> likely to be accessed frequently or not.
>
> In the future I plan to do further work on how ext4 would use these
> flags, but I want to first get the ability to pass these flags plumbed
> into the VFS layer and the code points for O_HOT and O_COLD reserved.
>
>
> Theodore Ts'o (3):
>    fs: add new open flags O_HOT and O_COLD
>    fs: propagate the open_flags structure down to the low-level fs's
>      create()
>    ext4: use the O_HOT and O_COLD open flags to influence inode
>      allocation

Full-file seems awfully coarse-grained.  What about doing this at page 
granularity, and hint via VM as well as block layer?

	Jeff