From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: 'SelvaKumar S' <selvakuma.s1@samsung.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add simple copy support
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 04:19:21 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210220191921.GA7968@redsun51.ssa.fujisawa.hgst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <146c47907c2446d4a896830de400dd81@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 06:01:56PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: SelvaKumar S
> > Sent: 19 February 2021 12:45
> >
> > This patchset tries to add support for TP4065a ("Simple Copy Command"),
> > v2020.05.04 ("Ratified")
> >
> > The Specification can be found in following link.
> > https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-1.4-Ratified-TPs-1.zip
> >
> > Simple copy command is a copy offloading operation and is used to copy
> > multiple contiguous ranges (source_ranges) of LBA's to a single destination
> > LBA within the device reducing traffic between host and device.
>
> Sounds to me like the real reason is that the copy just ends up changing
> some indirect block pointers rather than having to actually copy the data.
I guess an implementation could do that, but I think that's missing the
point of the command. The intention is to copy the data to a new
location on the media for host managed garbage collection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-20 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20210219124555epcas5p1334e7c4d64ada5dc4a2ca0feb48c1d44@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add simple copy support SelvaKumar S
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124559epcas5p41da46f1c248e334953d407a154697903@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 1/4] block: make bio_map_kern() non static SelvaKumar S
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124603epcas5p33add0f2c1781b2a4d71bf30c9e1ac647@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 2/4] block: add simple copy support SelvaKumar S
2021-02-20 4:59 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-07 11:32 ` Selva Jove
2021-04-12 0:24 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-12 14:34 ` Selva Jove
2021-04-13 0:32 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-04-14 6:58 ` Selva Jove
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124608epcas5p2a673f9e00c3e7b5352f115497b0e2d98@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 3/4] nvme: " SelvaKumar S
2021-02-20 3:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-22 15:57 ` Selva Jove
[not found] ` <CGME20210219124611epcas5p1c775b63b537e75da161556e375fcf05e@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2021-02-19 12:45 ` [RFC PATCH v5 4/4] dm kcopyd: add simple copy offload support SelvaKumar S
2021-02-20 18:01 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add simple copy support David Laight
2021-02-20 19:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-20 19:19 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2021-02-21 23:52 ` Dave Chinner
2021-02-23 9:14 ` Selva Jove
2021-02-22 1:31 ` Ming Lei
2021-02-22 6:52 ` Su Yue
2021-02-23 9:00 ` Selva Jove
2021-04-10 0:21 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-04-10 0:29 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-04-10 6:32 ` Javier González
2021-04-11 9:10 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-04-11 19:26 ` Javier González
2021-04-13 15:38 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-04-13 18:25 ` Javier González
2021-04-13 18:36 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
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