On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 05:55:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:22:56AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote: > > > No need to create a new fcntl. The people already testing this are > > successfully using FDP with the existing fcntl hints. Their applications > > leverage FDP as way to separate files based on expected lifetime. It is > > how they want to use it and it is working above expectations. > > FYI, I think it's always fine and easy to map the temperature hits to > write streams if that's all the driver offers. It loses a lot of the > capapilities, but as long as it doesn't enforce a lower level interface > that never exposes more that's fine. But that's just the v2 from this sequence: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/20240528150233.55562-1-joshi.k@xxxxxxxxxxx/ If you're okay with it now, then let's just go with that and I'm happy continue iterating on the rest separately.
