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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] Support for write stream IDs
On 03/24/2015 11:03 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> One of the things that exacerbates write amplification on flash
>> based devices is that fact that data with different lifetimes get
>> grouped together on media. Currently we have no interface that
>> applications can use to separate different types of writes. This
>> patch set adds support for that.
>>
>> The kernel has no knowledge of what stream ID is what. The idea is
>> that writes with identical stream IDs have similar life times, not
>> that stream ID 'X' has a shorter lifetime than stream ID 'X+1'.
>>
>> There are basically two interfaces that could be used for this. One
>> is fcntl, the other is fadvise. This patchset uses fadvise, with a
>> new POSIX_FADV_STREAMID hint. The 'offset' field is used to pass
>> the relevant stream ID. Switching to fcntl (with a SET/GET_STREAMID)
>> would be trivial.
>>
>> The patchset wires up the block parts, adds buffered and O_DIRECT
>> support, and modifies btrfs/xfs too. It should be trivial to extend
>> this to all other file systems, I just used xfs and btrfs for testing.
>>
>> No block drivers are wired up yet. Patches are against current -git.
>
> Can you give an idea of how the stream id would be communicated to the
> device? NVMe doesn't appear to have any notion of a data stream ID.

It doesn't have it, yet, completely. Ming Lin can expand on what it
looks like for the Samsung nvme devices. Current nvme does have vague
support for it, however. The write command does have bits for frequent
vs infrequent vs one-time writes.

--
Jens Axboe



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