Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] FDP and per-io hints

Keith Busch
2024-10-02T14:56:15Z

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 09:49:26AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 10:23:43AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > I think because he's getting conflicting feedback. The arguments against
> > it being that it's not a good match, however it's the same match created
> > for streams, and no one complained then, and it's an existing user ABI.
>
> People complained, and the streams code got removed pretty quickly
> because it did not work as expected. I don't think that counts as
> a big success.

I don't think the kernel API was the problem. Capable devices never
materialized, so the code wasn't doing anything useful.