Re: [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 06/16/2017 07:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> >From my perspective, all I really care about is the 4 hints. It's a
>> simple enough interface that applications can understand and use it, and
>> we don't need any management of actual stream IDs. I think that has the
>> highest chance of success. Modifying an application to use it is
>> trivial, even something like RocksDB (if you havehad to make changes
>> to RocksDB, you'll get this).
> 
> Btw, are your current RocksDB patches available somewhere?

Yep, it's on Mark Callaghan's github:

https://github.com/mdcallag/rocksdb

This is using mostly the v1 I posted, the only difference is that I just
named the four flags RWF_S[1-4].

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Jens Axboe