Re: [PATCH 00/20] lightnvm: simplify media manager

[Matias BjÃrling]

On 11/18/2016 03:43 PM, Javier GonzÃlez wrote:
> This patchset simplifies the generic media manager interface and moves
> lun and block functionality to lightnvm targets. This makes that
> rrpc-specific functionality is not exposed on the media manager. This is
> done in preparation for the pblk target.
> 
> Matias: patches 0 - 4 have been posted before. Patches apply to you
> for-4.10/core
> 
> Javier GonzÃlez (20):
>   lightnvm: enable to send hint to erase command
>   lightnvm: do not protect block 0
>   lightnvm: export set bad block table
>   lightnvm: add ECC error codes
>   lightnvm: rrpc: split bios of size > 256kb
>   lightnvm: remove sysfs configuration interface
>   lightnvm: cleanup unused target operations
>   lightnvm: make address conversion functions global
>   lightnvm: remove unnecessary variables in rrpc
>   lightnvm: use constant name instead of value
>   lightnvm: remove gen_lun abstraction
>   lightnvm: manage lun partitions internally in mm
>   lightnvm: move block provisioning to targets
>   lightnvm: remove get_lun operation on gennvm
>   lightnvm: remove debug lun statistics from gennvm
>   lightnvm: eliminate nvm_block abstraction on mm
>   lightnvm: eliminate nvm_lun abstraction in mm
>   lightnvm: introduce helpers for generic ops in rrpc
>   lightnvm: introduce max_phys_sects helper function
>   lightnvm: use target nvm on target-specific ops.
> 
>  drivers/lightnvm/core.c      | 306 ++++++++------------
>  drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c    | 664 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.h    |  34 ++-
>  drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c      | 512 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.h      |  65 ++++-
>  drivers/lightnvm/sysblk.c    |  98 +++----
>  drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c |  15 +-
>  include/linux/lightnvm.h     | 231 +++++++--------
>  8 files changed, 1005 insertions(+), 920 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks Javier. I have picked 1-12 (including "manage lun partitions
internally in mm"). Will wait on repost of 13-20 to pick the rest.