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      lightnvm: Support for Open-Channel SSDs · cd9e9808
      Matias Bjørling 提交于
      Open-channel SSDs are devices that share responsibilities with the host
      in order to implement and maintain features that typical SSDs keep
      strictly in firmware. These include (i) the Flash Translation Layer
      (FTL), (ii) bad block management, and (iii) hardware units such as the
      flash controller, the interface controller, and large amounts of flash
      chips. In this way, Open-channels SSDs exposes direct access to their
      physical flash storage, while keeping a subset of the internal features
      of SSDs.
      
      LightNVM is a specification that gives support to Open-channel SSDs
      LightNVM allows the host to manage data placement, garbage collection,
      and parallelism. Device specific responsibilities such as bad block
      management, FTL extensions to support atomic IOs, or metadata
      persistence are still handled by the device.
      
      The implementation of LightNVM consists of two parts: core and
      (multiple) targets. The core implements functionality shared across
      targets. This is initialization, teardown and statistics. The targets
      implement the interface that exposes physical flash to user-space
      applications. Examples of such targets include key-value store,
      object-store, as well as traditional block devices, which can be
      application-specific.
      
      Contributions in this patch from:
      
        Javier Gonzalez <jg@lightnvm.io>
        Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
        Jesper Madsen <jmad@itu.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NMatias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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