linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 00/25] LightNVM updates for 4.16

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:34:41 +0100
From:   Matias Bjørling <m@...rling.me>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/25] LightNVM updates for 4.16

On 01/05/2018 04:50 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Matias Bjørling wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> Here is a couple of patches for 4.16.
>>
>> This patchset prepares the lightnvm and pblk source code for the 2.0
>> specification release. The specification is close to its final
>> revision. After these changes, 2.0 support is a quick drop.
>>
>> While adopting 2.0 specification, the rrpc and null_blk
>> implementation had to go. rrpc used the deprecated device-side
>> table mapping table API for the 1.2 specification, and there are
>> no users of it. Similarly, null_blk has not worked with pblk for
>> a while.
>>
>> Javier and Hans have been hard at work at fixing up bugs in pblk,
>> especially concerning synchronization points between user I/O and GC
>> I/O. While also fixing bugs that occurred on bringup/bringdown.
>>
>> They also added support for iostats and added an option to add
>> support for defining the amount of over-provisioning an instance
>> should have.
>
> Apart from the minor comment on one of the later patches, looks fine to
> me. Applied for 4.16.
>

Thanks Jens.