linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] lightnvm: pblk fixes for 4.13

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Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:08:51 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:     Javier González <jg@...htnvm.io>, <mb@...htnvm.io>
CC:     <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Javier González <javier@...xlabs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] lightnvm: pblk fixes for 4.13

On 06/30/2017 09:56 AM, Javier González wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Here you have a second round of fixes for pblk. They are in essence bug
> fixes including a double-free reported by Dan.
> 
> There is also regression fix for pblk removal, which was introduced with
> the new metadata scheduler. This fix makes that removing a pblk instance
> takes again at most 2 seconds.
> 
> Finally, I also included a patch for double checking the L2P to verify a
> cache hit before reading from the write cache. We have experienced a
> database not issuing fsync before reading recently written metadata
> triggering a bad cache read. We verified it this week. This patch is an
> easy fix that we can make in pblk.

Applied for 4.13, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe