Re: [PATCHSET v4] Add support for write life time hints

2017-06-15 Thread Jens Axboe
On 06/15/2017 02:12 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:45:01PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> A new iteration of this patchset, previously known as write streams. >> As before, this patchset aims at enabling applications split up >> writes into separate streams, based on the per

Re: [PATCHSET v4] Add support for write life time hints

2017-06-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:45:01PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > A new iteration of this patchset, previously known as write streams. > As before, this patchset aims at enabling applications split up > writes into separate streams, based on the perceived life time > of the data written. This is useful

[PATCHSET v4] Add support for write life time hints

2017-06-14 Thread Jens Axboe
A new iteration of this patchset, previously known as write streams. As before, this patchset aims at enabling applications split up writes into separate streams, based on the perceived life time of the data written. This is useful for a variety of reasons: - With NVMe 1.3 compliant devices, the d