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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Chaitra Basappa <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>,
	Suganath Prabu Subramani  <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>,
	Sathya Prakash Veerichetty <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support:
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 00:04:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170808040449.GE842@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1502120725.2841.28.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 08:45:25AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 20:01 +0530, Kashyap Desai wrote:
> > 
> > We have to attempt this use case and see how it behaves. I have not
> > tried this, so not sure if things are really bad or just some tuning
> > may be helpful. I will revert back to you on this.
> > 
> > I understood request as -  We need some udev rules to be working well
> > for *same* NVME drives if it is behind <mpt3sas> or native <nvme>.
> > Example - If user has OS installed on NVME drive which is behind
> > <mpt3sas> driver as SCSI disk should be able to boot if he/she hooked
> > same NVME drive which is detected by native <nvme> driver (and vice
> > versa.)
> 
> It's not just the udev rules, it's the tools as well; possibly things
> like that nvme-cli toolkit Intel is doing.

It looks like they can make existing nvme tooling work with little
effort if they have the driver implement NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_COMMAND, and
then have their driver build the MPI NVMe Encapsulated Request from that.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-08  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-14 13:22 [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Suganath Prabu S
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] mpt3sas: Update MPI Header Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:24   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-03  7:55     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-08-03  9:34       ` Sreekanth Reddy
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] mpt3sas: Add nvme device support in slave alloc, target alloc and probe Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:27   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-03 10:09     ` Sreekanth Reddy
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] mpt3sas: SGL to PRP Translation for I/Os to NVMe devices Suganath Prabu S
2017-07-27 13:26   ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] mpt3sas: Added support for nvme encapsulated request message Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:33   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] mpt3sas: API 's to support NVMe drive addition to SML Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:35   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] mpt3sas: API's to remove nvme drive from sml Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:36   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] mpt3sas: Handle NVMe PCIe device related events generated from firmware Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:38   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] mpt3sas: Set NVMe device queue depth as 128 Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:39   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-03  9:52     ` Sreekanth Reddy
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] mpt3sas: scan and add nvme device after controller reset Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:40   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-03 10:19     ` Sreekanth Reddy
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] mpt3as: Add-Task-management-debug-info-for-NVMe-drives Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:43   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] mpt3sas: NVMe drive support for BTDHMAPPING ioctl command and log info Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:44   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] mpt3sas: Fix nvme drives checking for tlr Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:44   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] mpt3sas: Update mpt3sas driver version Suganath Prabu S
2017-08-03  6:45   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-25  5:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] mpt3sas driver NVMe support: Suganath Prabu Subramani
2017-08-02  8:14 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-03  6:48   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-05 13:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-05 14:42     ` James Bottomley
2017-08-07 13:56       ` Kashyap Desai
2017-08-07 14:18         ` James Bottomley
2017-08-07 14:31           ` Kashyap Desai
2017-08-07 15:45             ` James Bottomley
2017-08-08  4:04               ` Keith Busch [this message]
2017-08-08  7:03                 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2017-08-08  7:29                   ` Keith Busch

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