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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:26:33 -0600
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On 06/14/2017 10:04 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Christoph,
> 
>> I think what Martin wants (or at least what I'd want him to want) is
>> to define a few REQ_* bits that mirror the RWF bits, use that to
>> transfer the information down the stack, and then only translate it
>> to stream ids in the driver.
> 
> Yup. If we have enough space in the existing flags that's perfect (I
> lost count after your op/flag shuffle).

There are enough flags, I just implemented it. I'll run some testing
and rebase everything, then send out a v3...

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Jens Axboe