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

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 08:40:11AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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].

That commits look a bit like mess, but I guess I shouldn't expect
kernel-style changelogs and patch separation on github :)