Hi Linus, This removes the write streams support in NVMe. No vendor ever really shipped working support for this, and they are not interested in supporting it. With the NVMe support gone, we have nothing in the tree that supports this. Remove passing around of the hints. The only discussion point in this patchset imho is the fact that the file specific write hint setting/getting fcntl helpers will now return -1/EINVAL like they did before we supported write hints. No known applications use these functions, I only know of one prototype that I help do for RocksDB, and that's not used. That said, with a change like this, it's always a bit controversial. Alternatively, we could just make them return 0 and pretend it worked. It's placement based hints after all. Diffstat manually generated, as git pull-request doesn't like that it's based on merges. It will merge cleanly with your current tree. Please pull! The following changes since commit 97939610b893de068c82c347d06319cd231a4602: block: remove bio_devname (2022-03-07 06:42:33 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git tags/for-5.18/write-streams-2022-03-18 for you to fetch changes up to 7b12e49669c99f63bc12351c57e581f1f14d4adf: fs: remove fs.f_write_hint (2022-03-08 17:55:03 -0700) ---------------------------------------------------------------- for-5.18/write-streams-2022-03-18 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Hellwig (4): nvme: remove support or stream based temperature hint block: remove the per-bio/request write hint fs: remove kiocb.ki_hint fs: remove fs.f_write_hint Jens Axboe (3): Merge branch 'for-5.18/block' into for-5.18/write-streams Merge branch 'for-5.18/drivers' into for-5.18/write-streams Merge branch 'for-5.18/alloc-cleanups' into for-5.18/write-streams block/bio.c | 2 - block/blk-crypto-fallback.c | 1 - block/blk-merge.c | 14 ----- block/blk-mq-debugfs.c | 24 -------- block/blk-mq.c | 1 - block/bounce.c | 1 - block/fops.c | 3 - drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 - drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c | 28 +--------- drivers/md/raid5.c | 6 -- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 143 ----------------------------------------------- drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 1 - fs/aio.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 1 - fs/buffer.c | 13 ++--- fs/cachefiles/io.c | 2 - fs/direct-io.c | 3 - fs/ext4/page-io.c | 5 +- fs/f2fs/data.c | 2 - fs/f2fs/file.c | 6 -- fs/fcntl.c | 18 ------ fs/gfs2/lops.c | 1 - fs/io_uring.c | 1 - fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 2 - fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 1 - fs/mpage.c | 1 - fs/open.c | 1 - fs/zonefs/super.c | 1 - include/linux/blk_types.h | 1 - include/linux/blkdev.h | 3 - include/linux/fs.h | 21 ------- include/trace/events/f2fs.h | 3 +- 32 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe