[PATCH 06/18] nvme: split a new struct nvme_ctrl out of struct nvme_dev

[Sagi Grimberg]

On 10/20/2015 1:26 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:19:45PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>> Can you explain why nvme_ctrl needs an additional struct device pointer?
>> (I understand it will go away from your statement "at the moment"
>> haven't read the rest of the patch set yet).
>
> No, it won't go away for the foreseeable future.  I don't want to move
> any members used in the hot path to sturct nvme_ctrl so that drivers can
> be optimized in this path without impacting the generic code.  Both for
> PCIe and Fabrics we need to squeeze the last bit of performance out and
> I don't want to have to cacheline optimize nvme_ctrl or even worse
> interactions between it and the containing structures.
>

I wasn't suggesting moving it to nvme_ctrl, I was suggesting to keep it
in nvme_dev and maybe add a helper have nvme_ctrl_to_dev(ctrl)->dev used
in slow paths. It would allow to remove the copy pointer in nvme_ctrl.

It's just a nit so I don't really mind keeping the copy.