Write Stream IDs?

[Gerry Houlder]

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Look at proposal 15-141r0, Storage Intelligence. This includes the stream
ID concept along with a couple of other features that may be unrelated to
write streams.
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Howard Chu <hyc at symas.com> wrote:
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> Hi, can someone point me to discussions/drafts for Write Stream IDs? I was
> just pointed to this list and haven't found anything relevant in the
> Published section of the t10.org web site.
>
> My main interest is in grouping and partially ordering writes, not sure if
> Stream IDs helps there. What I'm hoping for:
>
>  Since atomic I/Os have come up recently, I thought I'd throw a wish-list
>> item out there for consideration. It seems to me that the notion of write
>> barriers was too heavy-handed. What I would like is a way to tag groups of
>> writes. The only ordering constraint being, writes within a group tagged N
>> cannot be started before all writes in group N-1 have completed. Aside
>> from
>> that, writes within a group may be freely mixed and reordered with
>> non-tagged/non-grouped writes, and freely reordered within the group. That
>> would allow a DB application to commit its transactions with a consistent
>> ordering without requiring a full cache flush/sync/etc., thus reducing
>> impact on overall I/O.
>>
>
> (from http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg70047.html )
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