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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Marta Rybczynska <mrybczyn@kalray.eu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-nvme <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Samuel Jones <sjones@kalray.eu>,
	Guillaume Missonnier <gmissonnier@kalray.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: allow 64-bit results in passthru commands
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:49:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190819144922.GC6883@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469829119.56970464.1566198383932.JavaMail.zimbra@kalray.eu>

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:06:23AM -0700, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
> ----- On 16 Aug, 2019, at 15:16, Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de wrote:
> > Sorry for not replying to the earlier version, and thanks for doing
> > this work.
> > 
> > I wonder if instead of using our own structure we'd just use
> > a full nvme SQE for the input and CQE for that output.  Even if we
> > reserve a few fields that means we are ready for any newly used
> > field (at least until the SQE/CQE sizes are expanded..).
> 
> We could do that, nvme_command and nvme_completion are already UAPI.
> On the other hand that would mean not filling out certain fields like
> command_id. Can do an approach like this.

Well, we need to pass user space addresses and lengths, which isn't
captured in struct nvme_command.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-19 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16  9:47 [PATCH v2] nvme: allow 64-bit results in passthru commands Marta Rybczynska
2019-08-16 13:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-19  7:06   ` Marta Rybczynska
2019-08-19 14:49     ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-08-19 15:57       ` James Smart
2019-08-19 18:56       ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-08-19 18:57         ` Keith Busch
2019-08-19 21:17           ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-08-19 21:21             ` Keith Busch
2019-08-21 23:59       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-22  0:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-26 11:20   ` Marta Rybczynska
2019-09-02  8:29     ` Christoph Hellwig

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