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From: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	<linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	"Kirti Wankhede" <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	"Liang Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	"Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>,
	Liu Changpeng <changpeng.liu@intel.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Amnon Ilan" <ailan@redhat.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] nvme/core: add mdev interfaces
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 22:00:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1c0c7ae-1a7d-06e5-d8bb-765a7fd5e41d@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190503122902.GA5081@infradead.org>


On 5/3/2019 3:29 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 02:47:57PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> If the mdev device driver also sets the
>> NVME_F_MDEV_DMA_SUPPORTED, the mdev core will
>> dma map all the guest memory into the nvme device,
>> so that nvme device driver can use dma addresses as passed
>> from the mdev core driver
> We really need a proper block layer interface for that so that
> uring or the nvme target can use pre-mapping as well.

I think we can also find a way to use nvme-mdev for the target offload 
p2p feature.

Don't see a big difference of taking NVMe queue and namespace/partition 
to guest OS or to P2P since IO is issued by external entity and pooled 
outside the pci driver.

thoughts ?


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-03 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02 11:47 [PATCH v2 00/10] RFC: NVME MDEV Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] vfio/mdev: add notifier for map events Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] vfio/mdev: add .request callback Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] nvme/core: add some more values from the spec Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] nvme/core: add NVME_CTRL_SUSPENDED controller state Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] nvme/pci: use the NVME_CTRL_SUSPENDED state Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] nvme/core: add mdev interfaces Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-03 12:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-03 19:00     ` Max Gurtovoy [this message]
2019-05-04  6:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-06  8:31         ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-06  8:34           ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-06 12:59           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] nvme/core: add nvme-mdev core driver Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:47 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] nvme/pci: implement the mdev external queue allocation interface Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 14:20   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 21:12   ` Heitke, Kenneth
2019-05-02 21:20     ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-03 12:09       ` Keith Busch
2019-05-06  7:55         ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] nvme/mdev - Add inline performance measurments Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-02 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] nvme/mdev - generic block IO code Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-03 12:18 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] RFC: NVME MDEV Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-06  9:04   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-05-06 12:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-06 16:43       ` Keith Busch
2019-05-08 12:39       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-09  9:12     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-05-09 13:49       ` Keith Busch

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