From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: SelvaKumar S <selvakuma.s1@samsung.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, damien.lemoal@wdc.com, kch@kernel.org,
sagi@grimberg.me, snitzer@redhat.com, selvajove@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
nj.shetty@samsung.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
joshi.k@samsung.com, javier.gonz@samsung.com, kbusch@kernel.org,
joshiiitr@gmail.com, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add simple copy support
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:52:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210221235248.GZ4626@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210219124517.79359-1-selvakuma.s1@samsung.com>
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 06:15:13PM +0530, SelvaKumar S wrote:
> This patchset tries to add support for TP4065a ("Simple Copy Command"),
> v2020.05.04 ("Ratified")
>
> The Specification can be found in following link.
> https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-1.4-Ratified-TPs-1.zip
>
> Simple copy command is a copy offloading operation and is used to copy
> multiple contiguous ranges (source_ranges) of LBA's to a single destination
> LBA within the device reducing traffic between host and device.
>
> This implementation doesn't add native copy offload support for stacked
> devices rather copy offload is done through emulation. Possible use
> cases are F2FS gc and BTRFS relocation/balance.
It sounds like you are missing the most obvious use case for this:
hooking up filesystem copy_file_range() implementations to allow
userspace to offload user data copies to hardware....
Another fs level feature that could use this for hardware
acceleration fallocate(FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE).
These are probably going to be far easier to hook up than filesystem
GC algorithms, and there is also solid data integrity and stress
testing checking infrastructure for these operations via fstests.
> As SCSI XCOPY can take two different block devices and no of source range is
> equal to 1, this interface can be extended in future to support SCSI XCOPY.
That greatly complicates the implementation. do we even care at this
point about cross-device XCOPY at this point?
Cheers,
Dave.
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[not found] <CGME20210219124555epcas5p1334e7c4d64ada5dc4a2ca0feb48c1d44@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add simple copy support SelvaKumar S
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124559epcas5p41da46f1c248e334953d407a154697903@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 1/4] block: make bio_map_kern() non static SelvaKumar S
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124603epcas5p33add0f2c1781b2a4d71bf30c9e1ac647@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 2/4] block: add simple copy support SelvaKumar S
2021-02-20 4:59 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-07 11:32 ` Selva Jove
2021-04-12 0:24 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-12 14:34 ` Selva Jove
2021-04-13 0:32 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-14 6:58 ` Selva Jove
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124608epcas5p2a673f9e00c3e7b5352f115497b0e2d98@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 3/4] nvme: " SelvaKumar S
2021-02-20 3:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-22 15:57 ` Selva Jove
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124611epcas5p1c775b63b537e75da161556e375fcf05e@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 4/4] dm kcopyd: add simple copy offload support SelvaKumar S
2021-02-20 18:01 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add simple copy support David Laight
2021-02-20 19:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-20 19:19 ` Keith Busch
2021-02-21 23:52 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2021-02-23 9:14 ` Selva Jove
2021-02-22 1:31 ` Ming Lei
2021-02-22 6:52 ` Su Yue
2021-02-23 9:00 ` Selva Jove
2021-04-10 0:21 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-04-10 0:29 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-04-10 6:32 ` Javier González
2021-04-11 9:10 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-04-11 19:26 ` Javier González
2021-04-13 15:38 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-04-13 18:25 ` Javier González
2021-04-13 18:36 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
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