From: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, jsmart2021@gmail.com, sagi@grimberg.me,
martin.petersen@oracle.com, idanb@mellanox.com,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, israelr@mellanox.com,
vladimirk@mellanox.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
shlomin@mellanox.com, jgg@mellanox.com, oren@mellanox.com,
kbusch@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] nvme: introduce namespace features flag
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:53:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ffeee50-9c96-495f-b82b-bf3873e95183@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200421115912.GB26432@lst.de>
On 4/21/2020 4:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 08:15:29PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
>> From: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
>>
>> Centralize all the metadata checks to one place and make the code more
>> readable. Introduce a new enum nvme_ns_features for that matter.
>> The features flag description:
>> - NVME_NS_EXT_LBAS - NVMe namespace supports extended LBA format.
>> - NVME_NS_MD_HOST_SUPPORTED - NVMe namespace supports getting metadata
>> from host's block layer.
>> - NVME_NS_MD_CTRL_SUPPORTED - NVMe namespace supports metadata actions
>> by the controller (generate/strip).
> So whole I like the ->features flag, the defintion of these two
> metadata related features really confuses me.
>
> Here are my vague ideas to improve the situation:
>
Care to look at any of the RFC items I posted on 2/24 - which does
things a little differently ? Perhaps find a common ground with Max's
patches.
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2020-February/029066.html
Granted I've tweaked what I sent a little as there was no need to make
nvme_ns_has_pi accessible to the transport.
-- james
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-27 17:15 [PATCH 00/17 V5] nvme-rdma/nvmet-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/1] nvme-cli/fabrics: Add pi_enable param to connect cmd Max Gurtovoy
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 01/17] nvme: introduce namespace features flag Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 11:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-21 15:53 ` James Smart [this message]
2020-04-21 18:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 02/17] nvme: Add has_md field to the nvme_req structure Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 11:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 03/17] nvme: Enforce extended LBA format for fabrics metadata Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 12:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 04/17] nvme: introduce max_integrity_segments ctrl attribute Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 12:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 05/17] nvme-fabrics: Allow user enabling metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-21 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-22 22:07 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-22 22:24 ` James Smart
2020-04-22 22:39 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-23 5:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-23 7:30 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-24 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 9:48 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-27 6:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 13:52 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-27 13:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-28 9:18 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-23 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 06/17] nvme: introduce NVME_INLINE_MD_SG_CNT Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 07/17] nvme-rdma: Introduce nvme_rdma_sgl structure Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 08/17] nvme-rdma: add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-23 9:22 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-24 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 10:04 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 09/17] nvmet: prepare metadata request Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 10/17] nvmet: add metadata characteristics for a namespace Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 15:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 11/17] nvmet: Rename nvmet_rw_len to nvmet_rw_data_len Max Gurtovoy
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 12/17] nvmet: Rename nvmet_check_data_len to nvmet_check_transfer_len Max Gurtovoy
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 13/17] nvme: Add Metadata Capabilities enumerations Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 15:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-23 12:09 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-24 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 14/17] nvmet: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-23 12:39 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-24 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 10:50 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-27 6:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 15/17] nvmet: Add metadata support for block devices Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-23 17:25 ` Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-24 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 16/17] RDMA/rw: Expose maximal page list for a device per 1 MR Max Gurtovoy
2020-03-27 17:15 ` [PATCH 17/17] nvmet-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-04-21 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
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