From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] nvme: add the "debug" host driver
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 03:00:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a281a539-6892-d7e2-cff9-57b5f3c22373@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2202031532410.12071@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
Mikulas,
On 2/3/22 12:57, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 05:15:34PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 08:06:33AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 06:01:13AM +0000, Adam Manzanares wrote:
>>>>> BTW I think having the target code be able to implement simple copy without
>>>>> moving data over the fabric would be a great way of showing off the command.
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean this should be implemented instead as a fabrics backend
>>>> instead because fabrics already instantiates and creates a virtual
>>>> nvme device? And so this would mean less code?
>>>
>>> It would be a lot less code. In fact I don't think we need any new code
>>> at all. Just using nvme-loop on top of null_blk or brd should be all
>>> that is needed.
>>
>> Mikulas,
>>
>> That begs the question why add this instead of using null_blk with
>> nvme-loop?
>>
>> Luis
>
> I think that nvme-debug (the patch 3) doesn't have to be added to the
> kernel.
>
> Nvme-debug was an old student project that was canceled. I used it because
> it was very easy to add copy offload functionality to it - adding this
> capability took just one function with 43 lines of code (nvme_debug_copy).
>
> I don't know if someone is interested in continuing the development of
> nvme-debug. If yes, I can continue the development, if not, we can just
> drop it.
>
> Mikulas
>
Thanks for explanation seems like we are on the same page, we don't
want any code such as this that is controller specific in the
NVMe repo including target.
-ck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-04 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20220127071544uscas1p2f70f4d2509f3ebd574b7ed746d3fa551@uscas1p2.samsung.com>
2022-01-27 7:14 ` [LSF/MM/BFP ATTEND] [LSF/MM/BFP TOPIC] Storage: Copy Offload Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-01-28 19:59 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-01-31 11:49 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2022-01-31 19:03 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-01 1:54 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-02-01 10:21 ` Javier González
2022-02-01 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] NVMe copy offload patches Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-01 18:32 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] block: add copy offload support Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-01 19:18 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-03 18:50 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-03 20:11 ` Keith Busch
2022-02-03 22:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-04 12:09 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-04 13:34 ` Jens Axboe
2022-02-02 16:21 ` Keith Busch
2022-02-02 16:40 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-02 18:40 ` Knight, Frederick
2022-02-01 18:33 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] nvme: " Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-01 19:18 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-01 19:25 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-01 18:33 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] nvme: add the "debug" host driver Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-02 6:01 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-02-03 16:06 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-02-03 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-03 19:34 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-02-03 19:46 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-02-03 20:57 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-03 22:52 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-02-04 3:00 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni [this message]
2022-02-04 3:05 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-02-02 8:00 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-02-02 12:38 ` Klaus Jensen
2022-02-03 15:38 ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-02-03 16:52 ` Keith Busch
2022-02-03 19:50 ` Adam Manzanares
2022-02-04 3:12 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-02-04 6:28 ` Damien Le Moal
2022-02-04 7:58 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-02-04 8:24 ` Javier González
2022-02-04 9:58 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-02-04 11:34 ` Javier González
2022-02-04 14:15 ` Hannes Reinecke
2022-02-04 14:24 ` Keith Busch
2022-02-04 16:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-04 19:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] NVMe copy offload patches Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141901epcas5p162ec2387815be7a1fd67ce0ab7082119@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Add Copy offload support Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141908epcas5p4f270c89fc32434ea8b525fa973098231@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] block: make bio_map_kern() non static Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141913epcas5p4d41cb549b7cca1ede5c7a66bbd110da0@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] block: Introduce queue limits for copy-offload support Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-08 7:01 ` Damien Le Moal
2022-02-08 18:43 ` Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141918epcas5p4f9badc0c3f3f0913f091c850d2d3bd81@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] block: Add copy offload support infrastructure Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-07 22:45 ` kernel test robot
2022-02-07 23:26 ` kernel test robot
2022-02-08 7:21 ` Damien Le Moal
2022-02-09 10:22 ` Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-09 7:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-02-09 10:32 ` Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141924epcas5p26ad9cf5de732224f408aded12ed0a577@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] block: Introduce a new ioctl for copy Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-09 3:39 ` kernel test robot
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141930epcas5p2bcbff65f78ad1dede64648d73ddb3770@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] block: add emulation " Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-08 3:20 ` kernel test robot
2022-02-16 13:32 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-17 13:18 ` Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141937epcas5p2bd57ae35056c69b3e2f9ee2348d6af19@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] nvme: add copy support Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-10 7:08 ` kernel test robot
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141942epcas5p4bda894a5833513c9211dcecc7928a951@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] nvmet: add copy command support for bdev and file ns Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-07 18:10 ` kernel test robot
2022-02-07 20:12 ` kernel test robot
2022-02-10 8:31 ` kernel test robot
2022-02-11 7:52 ` Dan Carpenter
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141948epcas5p4534f6bdc5a1e2e676d7d09c04f8b4a5b@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] dm: Add support for copy offload Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-16 13:51 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-02-24 12:42 ` Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-25 9:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141953epcas5p32ccc3c0bbe642cea074edefcc32302a5@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] dm: Enable copy offload for dm-linear target Nitesh Shetty
[not found] ` <CGME20220207141958epcas5p25f1cd06726217696d13c2dfbea010565@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2022-02-07 14:13 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] dm kcopyd: use copy offload support Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-07 9:57 ` [LSF/MM/BFP ATTEND] [LSF/MM/BFP TOPIC] Storage: Copy Offload Nitesh Shetty
2022-02-02 5:57 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-02-07 10:45 ` David Disseldorp
2022-03-01 17:34 ` Nikos Tsironis
2022-03-01 21:32 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-03-03 18:36 ` Nikos Tsironis
2022-03-08 20:48 ` Nikos Tsironis
2022-03-09 8:51 ` Mikulas Patocka
2022-03-09 15:49 ` Nikos Tsironis
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