From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Marta Rybczynska <mrybczyn@kalray.eu>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
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 12:57:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190819185749.GA11202@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d7819a9-9504-2dc6-fca4-fbde4f99d92c@grimberg.me>
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:56:28AM -0700, Sagi Grimberg 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.
>
> Isn't simply having a 64 variant simpler?
Could you provide more details on what you mean by this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-19 18:59 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
2019-08-19 15:57 ` James Smart
2019-08-19 18:56 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-08-19 18:57 ` Keith Busch [this message]
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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