[PATCH v7 0/3] FDP and per-io hints

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Wed Oct 2 17:20:25 PDT 2024


On 9/30/24 11:13 AM, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> Another spin to incorporate the feedback from LPC and previous
> iterations. The series adds two capabilities:
> - FDP support at NVMe level (patch #1)
> - Per-io hinting via io_uring (patch #3)
> Patch #2 is needed to do per-io hints.
> 
> The motivation and interface details are present in the commit
> descriptions.

Something is missing from the patch descriptions. What is the goal
of this patch series? Is the goal to support FDP in filesystems in
the kernel, is the goal to support filesystems implemented in user
space or perhaps something else? I think this should be mentioned in
the cover letter.

Thanks,

Bart.




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