By Neil Brown  November 9, 2017, lwn.net

• Block layer introduction part 2: the request layer
• Two new block I/O schedulers for 4.12

The Linux block layer provides an upstream interface to filesystems and block-special devices allowing them to access a multitude of storage backends in a uniform …

By Neil Brown  October 25, 2017, lwn.net

• A block layer introduction part 1: the bio layer
• [PATCH] block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index
• [PATCH] blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request()
• [PATCH] block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
• [PATCH] block: provide a direct_make_request …