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

Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel.io-uring,gmane.linux.block
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/2/24 1:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 10:18:41AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Have to say, that neither have your responses been. Can't really fault
>> people for just giving up at some point, when no productive end seems to
>> be in sight.
> 
> I heavily disagree and take offence on that.
> 
> The previous stream separation approach made total sense, but just
> needed a fair amount of work.  But it closely matches how things work
> at the hardware and file system level, so it was the right approach.

What am I missing that makes this effort that different from streams?
Both are a lifetime hint.

> Suddenly dropping that and ignoring all comments really feels like
> someone urgently needs to pull a marketing stunt here.

I think someone is just trying to finally get this feature in, so it
can get used by customers, after many months of fairly unproductive
discussion.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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