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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Mingbao Sun <sunmingbao@tom.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tyler.sun@dell.com, ping.gan@dell.com, yanxiu.cai@dell.com,
	libin.zhang@dell.com, ao.sun@dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-tcp: support specifying the congestion-control
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 08:12:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220308071227.GB24575@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220305150915.00006b44@tom.com>

On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 03:09:15PM +0800, Mingbao Sun wrote:
> Well, actually I did have thought whether the calling of network API
> here is proper. Since I did find that there is no call to APIs of
> PCI/RDMA/TCP in fabrics.c.

Yes - for a good reason.  Without networking support your patch won't
even compile (both the host and target side).

> But I hope the following could make a defense for it:
> 
> Anyway, we need to validate the tcp_congestion passed in from
> user-space, right?

Do we?  It seems like no one else really calls this routine to verify
things.  In fact it has no modular users at all in the current tree.

> The role of nvmf_parse_options is similar to that of
> drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c from the target side.
> And both of them can not avoid handling specific options of the
> sub-classes (e.g., NVMF_OPT_HDR_DIGEST, NVMF_OPT_TOS, NVMF_OPT_KATO).

NVMF_OPT_KATO is completely generic, but yes, there other two are
transport specific.  None of them calls out into other modules
that would need dependecies, though.

I'm also a little concerned that no other in kernel user like iSCSI,
NBD or NFS has any code like this.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-08  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-04  9:27 [PATCH 0/2] NVMe_over_TCP: support specifying the congestion-control Mingbao Sun
2022-03-04  9:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] nvmet-tcp: " Mingbao Sun
2022-03-04  9:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme-tcp: " Mingbao Sun
2022-03-04 16:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-05  7:09     ` Mingbao Sun
2022-03-08  7:12       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-03-08  7:57         ` Mingbao Sun
2022-03-08 13:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] NVMe_over_TCP: " Mingbao Sun

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