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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: longli@linuxonhyperv.com, linux-fs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch v4 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:01:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPZmtOmpK6+znL0I@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82e8bec6-4f6f-08d7-90db-9661f675749d@acm.org>

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:37:56PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> such that this object storage driver can be implemented as a user-space
> library instead of as a kernel driver? As you may know vfio users can
> either use eventfds for completion notifications or polling. An
> interface like io_uring can be built easily on top of vfio.

Yes.  Similar to say the NVMe K/V command set this does not look like
a candidate for a kernel driver.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-20  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-20  3:31 [Patch v4 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob longli
2021-07-20  3:31 ` [Patch v4 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add support to ignore certain PCIE devices longli
2021-07-20  3:31 ` [Patch v4 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver longli
2021-07-20  5:26   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-20  5:30   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-20  7:34   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-20 19:57     ` Long Li
2021-07-21  5:08       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-20 11:10   ` Jiri Slaby
2021-07-20 22:12     ` Long Li
2021-07-21  4:57       ` Jiri Slaby
2021-07-21 16:07         ` Long Li
2021-07-20  3:31 ` [Patch v4 3/3] Drivers: hv: Add to maintainer for Hyper-V/Azure drivers longli
2021-07-20  4:37 ` [Patch v4 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob Bart Van Assche
2021-07-20  6:01   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-07-20  7:05     ` Long Li
2021-07-20 15:15       ` Bart Van Assche
2021-07-20 17:33         ` Long Li
2021-07-20 18:16           ` gregkh
2021-07-20 18:52             ` Long Li
2021-07-20 15:54 ` Greg KH
2021-07-20 18:37   ` Long Li
2021-07-21  5:18     ` Greg KH

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