| Subject | Re: [GIT PULL 00/25] LightNVM updates for 4.16 | From | Matias Bjørling <> | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:34:41 +0100 |
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On 01/05/2018 04:50 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Matias Bjørling wrote: >> Hi Jens, >> >> Here is a couple of patches for 4.16. >> >> This patchset prepares the lightnvm and pblk source code for the 2.0 >> specification release. The specification is close to its final >> revision. After these changes, 2.0 support is a quick drop. >> >> While adopting 2.0 specification, the rrpc and null_blk >> implementation had to go. rrpc used the deprecated device-side >> table mapping table API for the 1.2 specification, and there are >> no users of it. Similarly, null_blk has not worked with pblk for >> a while. >> >> Javier and Hans have been hard at work at fixing up bugs in pblk, >> especially concerning synchronization points between user I/O and GC >> I/O. While also fixing bugs that occurred on bringup/bringdown. >> >> They also added support for iostats and added an option to add >> support for defining the amount of over-provisioning an instance >> should have. > > Apart from the minor comment on one of the later patches, looks fine to > me. Applied for 4.16. >
Thanks Jens.
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