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From: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
To: "Javier González" <javier@javigon.com>
Cc: "axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>,
	SelvaKumar S <selvakuma.s1@samsung.com>,
	"sagi@grimberg.me" <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	"snitzer@redhat.com" <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	"selvajove@gmail.com" <selvajove@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	"nj.shetty@samsung.com" <nj.shetty@samsung.com>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dm-devel@redhat.com" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	"joshi.k@samsung.com" <joshi.k@samsung.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	"kbusch@kernel.org" <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] add simple copy support
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 13:24:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN4PR0401MB3598226CD4A32F65320A47379BCD0@SN4PR0401MB3598.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20201208131333.xoxincxcnh7iz33z@mpHalley

On 08/12/2020 14:13, Javier González wrote:
> On 08.12.2020 12:37, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> On 08/12/2020 13:22, Javier González wrote:
>>> Good idea. Are you thinking of a sysfs entry to select the backend?
>>
>> Not sure on this one, initially I thought of a sysfs file, but then
>> how would you do it. One "global" sysfs entry is probably a bad idea.
>> Having one per block device to select native vs emulation maybe? And
>> a good way to benchmark.
> 
> I was thinking a per block device to target the use case where a certain
> implementation / workload is better one way or the other.

Yes something along those lines.

>>
>> The other idea would be a benchmark loop on boot like the raid library
>> does.
>>
>> Then on the other hand, there might be workloads that run faster with
>> the emulation and some that run faster with the hardware acceleration.
>>
>> I think these points are the reason the last attempts got stuck.
> 
> Yes. I believe that any benchmark we run would be biased in a certain
> way. If we can move forward with a sysfs entry and default to legacy
> path, we would not alter current behavior and enable NVMe copy offload
> (for now) for those that want to use it. We can then build on top of it.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable approach?
> 

Yes this sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20201204094719epcas5p23b3c41223897de3840f92ae3c229cda5@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2020-12-04  9:46 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] add simple copy support SelvaKumar S
     [not found]   ` <CGME20201204094731epcas5p307fe5a0b9360c5057cd48e42c9300053@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2020-12-04  9:46     ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] block: " SelvaKumar S
2020-12-09  4:19       ` [dm-devel] " Martin K. Petersen
2020-12-09  5:17         ` Damien Le Moal
     [not found]   ` <CGME20201204094747epcas5p121b6eccf78a29ed4cba7c22d6b42d160@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2020-12-04  9:46     ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] nvme: " SelvaKumar S
2020-12-04 11:25   ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] " Damien Le Moal
2020-12-04 14:40     ` Keith Busch
2020-12-07  7:46       ` javier.gonz@samsung.com
2020-12-07  8:06         ` Damien Le Moal
2020-12-07  8:16           ` javier.gonz@samsung.com
2020-12-07  9:01             ` Damien Le Moal
2020-12-07 14:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-07 14:56     ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-12-07 19:24       ` Javier González
2020-12-08  8:40         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-12-08 12:22           ` Javier González
2020-12-08 12:37             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-12-08 13:13               ` Javier González
2020-12-08 13:24                 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2020-12-09  9:17                   ` Javier González
2020-12-15 23:45               ` Pavel Machek
2020-12-07 22:12       ` Douglas Gilbert
2020-12-08  6:44         ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-12-08 12:21           ` Javier González
2020-12-09  3:02       ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-12-07 19:14     ` Javier González

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