From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:51853 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751800AbdFNQA4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:00:56 -0400 To: Jens Axboe Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, adilger@dilger.ca Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints From: "Martin K. Petersen" References: <1497412919-19400-1-git-send-email-axboe@kernel.dk> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:00:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Jens Axboe's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:53:05 -0600") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering