Re: [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost

2014-12-11 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Wed, Dec 10 2014 at 6:42am -0500, Akira Hayakawa ruby.w...@gmail.com wrote: This patch adds dm-writeboost to staging tree. dm-writeboost is a log-structured SSD-caching driver. It caches data in log-structured way on the cache device so that the performance is maximized. The merit of

Re: Reworking dm-writeboost [was: Re: staging: Add dm-writeboost]

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Tue, Oct 08 2013 at 6:37am -0400, Akira Hayakawa ruby.w...@gmail.com wrote: Christoph, You can detect O_DIRECT writes by second guession a special combination of REQ_ flags only used there, as cfg tries to treat it special: #define WRITE_SYNC (WRITE | REQ_SYNC |

Re: staging: Add dm-writeboost

2013-09-17 Thread Mike Snitzer
On Tue, Sep 17 2013 at 8:41am -0400, Akira Hayakawa ruby.w...@gmail.com wrote: Mike, First, thank you for your commenting. I was looking forward to your comments. I suppose you are sensing some smell in my design. You are worrying that dm-writeboost will not only confuse users but