Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] apply write hints to select the type of segments

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Fri Nov 17 2017 - 13:37:16 EST


On 11/17, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Next time please coordinate this with the block list and Jens, who
> actually wrote the patch.

Got it.

>
> > hints segment type
> > ----- ------------
> > WRITE_LIFE_SHORT CURSEG_COLD_DATA
> > WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME CURSEG_HOT_DATA
> > others CURSEG_WARM_DATA
>
> Normally cold data is data with a long lifetime, and extreme is colder
> than cold, so there seems to be some mismatch here.

It was wrong description and I fixed it which matches to implementation.

The below description was merged:

WRITE_LIFE_SHORT CURSEG_HOT_DATA
WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME CURSEG_COLD_DATA
others CURSEG_WARM_DATA