Hi Tyler,
I'm not sure if that is going to help you, but recently Xiaodong developed a patch,
that allows sending IO commands to NVMe without writing your own application.

Please look at the patch:
https://review.gerrithub.io/c/spdk/spdk/+/417962

-- 
Best Regards,
Piotr Pelpliński

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPDK [mailto:spdk-bounces(a)lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Luse, Paul E
> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 11:53 PM
> To: Storage Performance Development Kit <spdk(a)lists.01.org>
> Subject: Re: [SPDK] How to send Single IO Command?
> 
> Hi Tyler,
> 
> The hello world in the examples for nvme is pretty basic:
> 
> https://github.com/spdk/spdk/blob/master/examples/nvme/hello_world/hello_
> world.c
> 
> as it shows both a write and a read to the nvme device.  Are you trying to use
> the nvme driver directly or go through bdev? If you wanted to share your
> attempts I'm sure someone here could help point out where there might be a
> simple mistake, that might be easier than pointing you to other potentially
> irrelevant examples.
> 
> Thx
> Paul
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPDK [mailto:spdk-bounces(a)lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Pereira, Tyler
> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2:09 PM
> To: spdk(a)lists.01.org
> Subject: [SPDK] How to send Single IO Command?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been looking at SPDK as a way to run a specific set of NVMe IO
> commands in a specific sequence. I have worked through some of the examples
> such as hello-world, identity, and perf but am still hitting some issues when
> trying to write my own code just trying to run a single IO command. I am
> typically seeing a segmentation fault most likely due to the data structures or
> parameters being passed to the read or write commands.
> 
> Are there any simplified examples available that just show single IO commands
> being created and sent to the device?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tyler Pereira
> 
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