From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Kanchan Joshi" <joshiiitr@gmail.com>,
"Kanchan Joshi" <joshi.k@samsung.com>,
"Keith Busch" <kbusch@kernel.org>,
"Pavel Begunkov" <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, sbates@raithlin.com,
logang@deltatee.com, "Pankaj Raghav" <pankydev8@gmail.com>,
"Javier González" <javier@javigon.com>,
"Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
"Adam Manzanares" <a.manzanares@samsung.com>,
"Anuj Gupta" <anuj20.g@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/17] nvme: wire-up support for async-passthru on char-device.
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:42:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88827a86-1304-e699-ec11-2718e280f9ad@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220324062053.GA12519@lst.de>
>>>> I know, and that was my original question, no one cares that this
>>>> interface completely lacks this capability? Maybe it is fine, but
>>>> it is not a trivial assumption given that this is designed to be more
>>>> than an interface to send admin/vs commands to the controller...
>>>
>>> Most people don't really care about or use multipath, so it's not a
>>> primary goal.
>>
>> This statement is generally correct. However what application would be
>> interested in speaking raw nvme to a device and gaining performance that
>> is even higher than the block layer (which is great to begin with)?
>
> If passthrough is faster than the block I/O path we're doing someting
> wrong. At best it should be the same performance.
That is not what the changelog says.
> That being said multipathing is an integral part of the nvme driver
> architecture, and the /dev/ngX devices. If we want to support uring
> async commands on /dev/ngX it will have to support multipath.
Couldn't agree more...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-24 10:42 UTC|newest]
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2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 00/17] io_uring passthru over nvme Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152653epcas5p10c31f58cf6bff125cc0baa176b4d4fac@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 01/17] io_uring: add support for 128-byte SQEs Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152655epcas5p4ae47d715e1c15069e97152dcd283fd40@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 02/17] fs: add file_operations->async_cmd() Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152658epcas5p3929bd1fcf75edc505fec71901158d1b5@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 03/17] io_uring: add infra and support for IORING_OP_URING_CMD Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 1:51 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-11 2:43 ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-11 17:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-11 18:47 ` Paul Moore
2022-03-11 20:57 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-11 21:03 ` Paul Moore
2022-03-14 16:25 ` Casey Schaufler
2022-03-14 16:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-14 18:05 ` Casey Schaufler
2022-03-14 19:40 ` Luis Chamberlain
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152700epcas5p4130d20119a3a250a2515217d6552f668@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 04/17] nvme: modify nvme_alloc_request to take an additional parameter Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 6:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152702epcas5p1eb1880e024ac8b9531c85a82f31a4e78@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 05/17] nvme: wire-up support for async-passthru on char-device Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 0:02 ` Clay Mayers
2022-03-10 8:32 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 7:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-14 16:23 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-15 8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-16 7:27 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-24 6:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24 17:45 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 17:56 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-11 18:53 ` Paul Moore
2022-03-11 21:02 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-13 21:53 ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-03-14 17:54 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-15 9:02 ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-03-16 9:21 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-16 10:56 ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-03-16 11:51 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-16 13:52 ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-03-16 14:35 ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-16 14:50 ` Sagi Grimberg
2022-03-24 6:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24 10:42 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2022-03-22 15:18 ` Clay Mayers
2022-03-22 16:57 ` Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152704epcas5p16610e1f50672b25fa1df5f7c5c261bb5@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 06/17] io_uring: prep for fixed-buffer enabled uring-cmd Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152707epcas5p430127761a7fd4bf90c2501eabe9ee96e@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 07/17] io_uring: add support for uring_cmd with fixed-buffer Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152709epcas5p1f9d274a0214dc462c22c278a72d8697c@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 08/17] nvme: enable passthrough " Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-11 6:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-14 13:06 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-15 8:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-14 12:18 ` Ming Lei
2022-03-14 13:09 ` Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152711epcas5p31de5d63f5de91fae94e61e5c857c0f13@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 09/17] io_uring: plug for async bypass Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 8:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-14 14:33 ` Ming Lei
2022-03-15 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-11 17:15 ` Luis Chamberlain
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152714epcas5p4c5a0d16512fd7054c9a713ee28ede492@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 10/17] block: wire-up support for plugging Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 8:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-10 12:40 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-14 14:40 ` Ming Lei
2022-03-21 7:02 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-23 1:27 ` Ming Lei
2022-03-23 1:41 ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-23 1:58 ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-23 2:10 ` Ming Lei
2022-03-23 2:17 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152716epcas5p3d38d2372c184259f1a10c969f7e4396f@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:20 ` [PATCH 11/17] block: factor out helper for bio allocation from cache Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-10 12:25 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-24 6:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-24 17:45 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-25 5:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152718epcas5p3afd2c8a628f4e9733572cbb39270989d@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 12/17] nvme: enable bio-cache for fixed-buffer passthru Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-14 18:18 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-15 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152720epcas5p19653942458e160714444942ddb8b8579@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 13/17] nvme: allow user passthrough commands to poll Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-08 17:08 ` Keith Busch
2022-03-09 7:03 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152723epcas5p34460b4af720e515317f88dbb78295f06@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 14/17] io_uring: add polling support for uring-cmd Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 6:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-14 10:16 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-15 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-16 5:09 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-24 6:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152725epcas5p36d1ce3269a47c1c22cc0d66bdc2b9eb3@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 15/17] nvme: wire-up polling for uring-passthru Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152727epcas5p20e605718dd99e97c94f9232d40d04d95@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 16/17] io_uring: add support for non-inline uring-cmd Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20220308152729epcas5p17e82d59c68076eb46b5ef658619d65e3@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-03-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 17/17] nvme: enable non-inline passthru commands Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 8:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-10 11:50 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-10 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-10 18:43 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-22 17:10 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-24 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-25 13:39 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-28 4:44 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-30 12:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-30 13:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-30 13:14 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-04-01 1:25 ` Jens Axboe
2022-04-01 2:33 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-04-01 2:44 ` Jens Axboe
2022-04-01 3:05 ` Jens Axboe
2022-04-01 6:32 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-04-19 17:31 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-04-19 18:19 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <CGME20220420152003epcas5p3991e6941773690bcb425fd9d817105c3@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-04-20 15:14 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-04-20 15:28 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-04-01 1:23 ` Jens Axboe
2022-04-01 1:22 ` Jens Axboe
2022-04-01 6:29 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-24 21:09 ` Clay Mayers
2022-03-24 23:36 ` Jens Axboe
2022-03-10 8:29 ` [PATCH 00/17] io_uring passthru over nvme Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-10 10:05 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-11 16:43 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-03-11 23:35 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-03-12 2:27 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-03-13 5:07 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-14 20:30 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-03-13 5:10 ` Kanchan Joshi
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