Re: [PATCH 00/12] lightnvm: 4.11 patches

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jan 31 2017 - 10:33:19 EST


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.

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Jens Axboe