[PATCHv10 9/9] scsi: set permanent stream count in block limits

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Wed Oct 30 08:41:39 PDT 2024


On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 05:55:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:22:56AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> 
> > No need to create a new fcntl. The people already testing this are
> > successfully using FDP with the existing fcntl hints. Their applications
> > leverage FDP as way to separate files based on expected lifetime. It is
> > how they want to use it and it is working above expectations. 
> 
> FYI, I think it's always fine and easy to map the temperature hits to
> write streams if that's all the driver offers.  It loses a lot of the
> capapilities, but as long as it doesn't enforce a lower level interface
> that never exposes more that's fine.

But that's just the v2 from this sequence:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/20240528150233.55562-1-joshi.k@samsung.com/

If you're okay with it now, then let's just go with that and I'm happy
continue iterating on the rest separately. 



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