linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] lightnvm: 4.11 patches

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 08:32:58 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Matias Bjørling <matias@...xlabs.com>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] lightnvm: 4.11 patches

On Tue, Jan 31 2017, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Here are the patches for the 4.11 window. The following changes have
> been made:
> 
>  - New ioctls for vectored I/Os. Now liblightnvm is fully supported and
>    applications can begin to use the liblightnvm API to integrate with
>    Open-Channel SSDs.
> 
>  - Merging of the general media manager with the lightnvm core. This
>    removes the need to instantiate the media manager before initializing
>    targets, and also eliminates the persistent metadata that was used
>    by gennvm.
> 
>  - Interface cleanups for target implementations. Enables pblk to be
>    simplified.
> 
>  - Fix memory leak on target creation failure.
> 
>  - Clean up end_io() path so that it follows the same approach as bio
>    structures to end ios.

Applied for 4.11, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe