From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
adilger@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:03:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b91457b-f64e-711d-dcea-91aa0ef78de4@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1wp8etv7y.fsf@oracle.com>
On 06/14/2017 10:00 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>
> Jens,
>
>> So how about we just call it "write_hint"? It sounds mostly like a
>> naming issue to me, as you would then map that to some specific stream
>> in your driver. You're free to do that right now. They are all flags,
>> it's just packed as a value to not waste too much space.
>
> Sure, that's fine with me. But let's call them bi_hints or something. I
> have a couple that I would like to add that are I/O direction agnostic.
Assuming you saw Christoph's reply, if we just make then bio/req flags,
you can translate them into whatever you want. Work for you?
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-14 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-14 4:01 [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 01/10] block: add support for carrying stream information in a bio Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 02/10] blk-mq: expose stream write stats through debugfs Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 03/10] fs: add support for an inode to carry stream related data Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 04/10] fs: add support for allowing applications to pass in write life time hints Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 05/10] fs: add O_DIRECT support for sending down bio stream information Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 06/10] fs: add support for buffered writeback to pass down " Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 07/10] ext4: add support for passing in stream information for buffered writes Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfs: " Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 09/10] btrfs: " Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:01 ` [PATCH 10/10] nvme: add support for streams and directives Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 4:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-06-14 15:45 ` [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints Martin K. Petersen
2017-06-14 15:53 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 16:00 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-06-14 16:03 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2017-06-14 16:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-14 16:02 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 16:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-06-14 16:26 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 17:22 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 23:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-06-15 3:26 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-15 3:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-06-15 3:57 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-15 4:38 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-16 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-16 14:40 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-16 15:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-16 15:55 ` Jens Axboe
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