Re: [PATCHSET v2] Add support for write life time hints

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On 06/14/2017 10:00 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Jens,
> 
>> So how about we just call it "write_hint"? It sounds mostly like a
>> naming issue to me, as you would then map that to some specific stream
>> in your driver. You're free to do that right now. They are all flags,
>> it's just packed as a value to not waste too much space.
> 
> Sure, that's fine with me. But let's call them bi_hints or something. I
> have a couple that I would like to add that are I/O direction agnostic.

Assuming you saw Christoph's reply, if we just make then bio/req flags,
you can translate them into whatever you want. Work for you?

-- 
Jens Axboe




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