Re: [PATCH v8 00/19] Pass data lifetime information to SCSI disk devices

Jens Axboe
2023-12-19T01:12:35Z

On 12/18/23 5:07 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> UFS vendors need the data lifetime information to achieve good performance.
> Providing data lifetime information to UFS devices can result in up to 40%
> lower write amplification. Hence this patch series that adds support in F2FS
> and also in the block layer for data lifetime information. The SCSI disk (sd)
> driver is modified such that it passes write hint information to SCSI devices
> via the GROUP NUMBER field.
>
> Please consider this patch series for the next merge window.

Bart, can you please stop reposting so quickly, it achieves the opposite
of what I suspect you are looking for.

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Jens Axboe