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

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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 perceived life time
>> of the data written. This is useful for a variety of reasons:
>>
>> - With NVMe 1.3 compliant devices, the device can expose multiple
>>   streams.
> 
> Nitpick: while the feature is introduce in NVMe 1.3, the NVMe versioning
> rules also allow devices that claim conformance with any older spec
> version to implement the feature.

Yes, that's true. I'll make that change, to not offend any of the NVMe
members.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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