Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 May 2019 07:27:19 -0700 | From | 'Christoph Hellwig' <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] Extend write-hint framework, and add write-hint for Ext4 journal |
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:01:55AM +0530, kanchan wrote: > Sorry but can you please elaborate the issue? I do not get what is being > statically allocated which was globally available earlier. > If you are referring to nvme driver, available streams at subsystem level > are being reflected for all namespaces. This is same as earlier. > There is no attempt to explicitly allocate (using dir-receive) or reserve > streams for any namespace. > Streams will continue to get allocated/released implicitly as and when > writes (with stream id) arrive.
We have made a concious decision that we do not want to expose streams as an awkward not fish not flesh interface, but instead life time hints.
I see no reason to change from and burden the whole streams complexity on other in-kernel callers.
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