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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL 00/25] LightNVM updates for 4.16
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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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