From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Avri Altman <Avri.Altman@wdc.com>,
"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "alim.akhtar@samsung.com" <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>,
"asutoshd@codeaurora.org" <asutoshd@codeaurora.org>,
Zang Leigang <zangleigang@hisilicon.com>,
Avi Shchislowski <Avi.Shchislowski@wdc.com>,
Bean Huo <beanhuo@micron.com>,
"cang@codeaurora.org" <cang@codeaurora.org>,
"stanley.chu@mediatek.com" <stanley.chu@mediatek.com>,
MOHAMMED RAFIQ KAMAL BASHA <md.rafiq@samsung.com>,
Sang-yoon Oh <sangyoon.oh@samsung.com>,
yongmyung lee <ymhungry.lee@samsung.com>,
Jinyoung CHOI <j-young.choi@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] scsi: ufs: Add HPB Support
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:14:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835c57b9-f792-2460-c3cc-667031969d63@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR04MB46408050B71E3A6225D6C495FCBA0@SN6PR04MB4640.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On 2020-05-16 02:14, Avri Altman wrote:
>> Thank you for having taken the time to publish your work. The way this
>> series has been split into individual patches makes reviewing easy.
>> Additionally, the cover letter and patch descriptions are very
>> informative, insightful and well written. However, I'm concerned about a
>> key aspect of the implementation, namely relying on a device handler to
>> alter the meaning of a block layer request. My concern about this
>> approach is that at most one device handler can be associated with a
>> SCSI LLD. If in the future more functionality would be added to the UFS
>> spec and if it would be desirable to implement that functionality as a
>> new kernel module, it won't be possible to implement that functionality
>> as a new device handler. So I think that not relying on the device
>> handler infrastructure is more future proof because that removes the
>> restrictions we have to deal with when using the device handler framework.
>
> So should we keep perusing this direction, or leave it, and concentrate in Bean's RFC?
> Or maybe come up with a 3rd way?
Hi Avri,
I prefer to proceed with reviewing Bean's patch series. If someone
prefers a different approach, I think this is a good time to bring that up.
Thanks,
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-16 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 10:30 [RFC PATCH 00/13] scsi: ufs: Add HPB Support Avri Altman
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 01/13] scsi: ufs: Add HPB parameters Avri Altman
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 02/13] scsi: ufshpb: Init part I - Read HPB config Avri Altman
2020-05-15 15:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-05-16 1:46 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-16 1:57 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 03/13] scsi: scsi_dh: Introduce scsi_dh_ufshpb Avri Altman
2020-05-16 1:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 04/13] scsi: ufs: ufshpb: Init part II - Attach scsi device Avri Altman
2020-05-16 1:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 05/13] scsi: ufs: ufshpb: Disable HPB if no HPB-enabled luns Avri Altman
2020-05-16 2:02 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 06/13] scsi: scsi_dh: ufshpb: Prepare for L2P cache management Avri Altman
2020-05-16 2:13 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 07/13] scsi: scsi_dh: ufshpb: Add ufshpb state machine Avri Altman
2020-05-16 2:44 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 08/13] scsi: dh: ufshpb: Activate pinned regions Avri Altman
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 09/13] scsi: ufshpb: Add response API Avri Altman
2020-05-16 3:06 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 10/13] scsi: dh: ufshpb: Add ufshpb_set_params Avri Altman
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 11/13] scsi: Allow device handler set their own CDB Avri Altman
2020-05-16 3:19 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 12/13] scsi: dh: ufshpb: Add prep_fn handler Avri Altman
2020-05-16 3:40 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-15 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] scsi: scsi_dh: ufshpb: Add "Cold" subregions timer Avri Altman
2020-05-16 3:50 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13] scsi: ufs: Add HPB Support Bart Van Assche
2020-05-16 9:14 ` Avri Altman
2020-05-16 17:14 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
[not found] ` <CGME20200516171420epcas2p108c570904c5117c3654d71e0a2842faa@epcms2p7>
2020-05-19 22:31 ` Another approach of UFSHPB yongmyung lee
2020-05-20 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-20 21:19 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-22 16:35 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-22 16:49 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <CGME20200516171420epcas2p108c570904c5117c3654d71e0a2842faa@epcms2p4>
2020-05-25 5:40 ` Daejun Park
2020-05-25 14:56 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-05-26 6:15 ` Avri Altman
2020-05-26 17:03 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <CGME20200516171420epcas2p108c570904c5117c3654d71e0a2842faa@epcms2p3>
2020-05-27 9:11 ` Daejun Park
2020-05-27 11:46 ` Bean Huo
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