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2015-08-27cxlflash: Virtual LUN supportMatthew R. Ochs
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this adapter. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
2015-08-27cxlflash: Superpipe supportMatthew R. Ochs
Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the traditional filesystem stack. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>