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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/27] Add support for OpenCAPI Persistent Memory devices
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:21 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:28 PM Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> >
> > This series adds support for OpenCAPI Persistent Memory devices, exposing
> > them as nvdimms so that we can make use of the existing infrastructure.
>
> A single sentence to introduce:
>
> 24 files changed, 3029 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
>
> ...is inadequate. What are OpenCAPI Persistent Memory devices? How do
> they compare, in terms relevant to libnvdimm, to other persistent
> memory devices? What challenges do they pose to the existing enabling?
> What is the overall approach taken with this 27 patch break down? What
> are the changes since v2, v1? If you incorporated someone's review
> feedback note it in the cover letter changelog, if you didn't

Assumptions and tradeoffs the implementation considered are also
critical for reviewing the approach.
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