On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <log...@deltatee.com> wrote: > Hey, > >> Okay, so clearly this needs a kernel side NVMe specific allocator >> and locking so users don't step on each other.. > > Yup, ideally. That's why device dax isn't ideal for this application: it > doesn't provide any way to prevent users from stepping on each other.
On this particular point I'm in the process of posting patches that allow device-dax sub-division, so you could carve up a bar into multiple devices of various sizes. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
