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

From: Matias BjÃrling
Date: Tue Aug 06 2019 - 09:40:57 EST


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