On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:08:54PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > For Enterprise NVMHCI, the working group is looking at refining these > hints. Are there any hints that people would like to see added or > removed from the list in NVMHCI 1.0? > > I think there are some hints that are hard for the filesystem to know > itself, never mind pass down, so it'd be good to remove them to reduce > the complexity. Contrariwise, there are some hints I think the filesystem > could pass down that aren't in the spec today, such as the flags from > madvise (random access vs sequential access) and whether the access is > for fs metadata or application data. If we're looking at the filesystem interface to all of this, I would think these hints could be used by non-SSD storage as well. Not only would a storage array benefit from knowing about random vs sequential access, but expected redundancy hints would be huge in managing utilization. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #396 "Never give anyone a fruitcake." Joel Becker Consulting Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
