linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] lnvm/pblk mapping cleanups

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Date:   Tue, 6 Aug 2019 06:40:51 -0700
From:   Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:     Hans Holmberg <hans@...tronix.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Javier González <javier@...igon.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] lnvm/pblk mapping cleanups

On 7/31/19 11:41 AM, Hans Holmberg wrote:
> This series cleans up the metadata allocation/mapping in lnvm/pblk
> by moving over to kvmalloc for metadata and moving metadata mapping
> down to the lower lever driver where blk_rq_map_kern can be used.
> 
> Hans Holmberg (4):
>    lightnvm: remove nvm_submit_io_sync_fn
>    lightnvm: move metadata mapping to lower level driver
>    lightnvm: pblk: use kvmalloc for metadata
>    block: stop exporting bio_map_kern
> 
>   block/bio.c                      |   1 -
>   drivers/lightnvm/core.c          |  43 ++++++++++++---
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c     | 116 +++++----------------------------------
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-gc.c       |  19 +++----
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c     |  38 ++++---------
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-read.c     |  22 +-------
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c |  39 ++-----------
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-write.c    |  20 +------
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h          |  31 +----------
>   drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c     |  45 +++++----------
>   include/linux/lightnvm.h         |   8 +--
>   11 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 286 deletions(-)
> 

Hi Jens,

Would you like me to pick up this serie, and send it through the 
lightnvm pull request, or would you like to pick it up?

Thank you!
Matias