[PATCH v2 RFC] nvme: improve performance for virtual NVMe devices

[helen.koike@collabora.co.uk (Helen Koike)]

On 11-05-2016 14:43, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016@01:50:25PM -0300, Helen Koike wrote:
>>
>> On 21-04-2016 10:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> I've not spent much time at it due to a busy conference week, but there
>>> are two main comments on why I don't think this is suitable as is
>>> despite really liking the general idea.
>>>
>>>   - I'd really like this to be proposed as an official extension to the
>>>     NVMe technical workgroup.  I'm also happy to help with making that
>>>     happen.  I really don't like to merge it until we have some basic
>>>     agreement on it, although once the basic agreement is there it
>>>     shouldn't be too hard to also support the older google specific
>>>     version.  And this is no new feedback, a couple of people including
>>>     me said that a long time ago, and we've seen zero action on it.
>>
>>
>> How the process of submitting a proposal to the NVMe technical workgroup
>> works? If it is just a matter of sending a document as the entry point and
>> as you offered help, I was wondering if you could just forward this proposal
>> to them and I can continue the work from that point onwards (as we wouldn't
>> like to burden you), would that be possible?
>
> Are you a contributing member of the NVM Express organization? If so,
> you directly send your proposal to the technical working group mailing
> list to start the process without a middle-man.

No, I am not, that is why I am asking. If it's not a burden to you I 
would appreciate some help to start the proposal with the NVMe technical 
workgroup, otherwise I'll need to go through a more bureaucratic path to 
do it in Google's name.