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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Nov 17 2017 - 12:24:14 EST



Next time please coordinate this with the block list and Jens, who
actually wrote the patch.

> 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.