Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] block: enable dax for raw block devices

2015-10-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Dan Williams writes: > >> If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory >> provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility >> to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted >>

Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] block: enable dax for raw block devices

2015-10-28 Thread Jeff Moyer
Dan Williams writes: > If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory > provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility > to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted > primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent me

[PATCH v2 5/5] block: enable dax for raw block devices

2015-10-22 Thread Dan Williams
If an application wants exclusive access to all of the persistent memory provided by an NVDIMM namespace it can use this raw-block-dax facility to forgo establishing a filesystem. This capability is targeted primarily to hypervisors wanting to provision persistent memory for guests. Cc: Jeff Moye