On 06/14/2017 02:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:05:27PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Add four flags for the pwritev2(2) system call, allowing an application >> to give the kernel a hint about what on-media life times can be >> expected from a given write. >> >> The intent is for these values to be relative to each other, no >> absolute meaning should be attached to these flag names. >> >> Define IOCB flags to carry this information over, and finally >> transform them into the block defined stream values. > > Note that we also have the RWF_NOWAIT flag pending, with which this > would clash. Maybe move it to the end of the space. That's a trivial thing to resolve. Whomever goes last can resolve that. I can put them at the end if you feel strongly about it, I personally don't really care. -- Jens Axboe
