Towards extending write-hints/streams infrastucture so that file-systems and other kernel-mode components can use exclusive hints. This patchset also modifies Ext4/JBD2 to use new in-kernel, write-hint with journal. Here is the history and changelog - Changes since v2: - Introduce API in block layer so that drivers can register stream info. Added new limit in request queue for this purpose. - Block layer does the conversion from write-hint to stream-id. - Any write-hint beyond registered limit turn to 0. - New macro "WRITE_LIFE_KERN_MIN" can be used as base by kernel mode components. Changes since v1: - introduce four more hints for in-kernel use, as recommended by Dave chinner & Jens axboe. This isolates kernel-mode hints from user-mode ones. - remove mount-option to specify write-hint, as recommended by Jan kara & Dave chinner. Rather, FS always sets write-hint for journal. This gets ignored if device does not support stream. - Removed code-redundancy for write_dirty_buffer (Jan kara's review comment) V2 patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10754405/ V1 patch: https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=154444637519020&w=2 Note: I am sorry about the fact this patchset is against 5.0.0-rc4, rather than against linux-next. Kanchan Joshi (7): block: extend stream count for in-kernel use block: introduce API to register stream information with block layer block: add write-hint to stream-id conversion nvme: register stream info with block layer fs: introduce APIs to enable sending write-hint with buffer-head fs: introduce write-hint start point for in-kernel hints fs/ext4,jbd2: add support for passing write-hint with journal block/blk-core.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ block/blk-settings.c | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 19 ++++++------------- fs/buffer.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h | 1 + fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++ fs/jbd2/commit.c | 11 +++++++---- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 3 ++- fs/jbd2/revoke.c | 3 ++- include/linux/blkdev.h | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/buffer_head.h | 3 +++ include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ include/linux/jbd2.h | 8 ++++++++ 13 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
