[RFC PATCH 0/2] virtio nvme

[J Freyensee]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 10:02 -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 14:02 +0000, Keith Busch wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Ming Lin wrote:
> > > The goal is to have a full NVMe stack from VM guest(virtio-nvme)
> > > to host(vhost_nvme) to LIO NVMe-over-fabrics target.
> > > 
> > > Now there are lots of duplicated code with linux/nvme-core.c and 
> > > qemu/nvme.c.
> > > The ideal result is to have a multi level NVMe stack(similar as 
> > > SCSI).
> > > So we can re-use the nvme code, for example
> > > 
> > >                        .-------------------------.
> > >                        | NVMe device register    |
> > >  Upper level           | NVMe protocol process   |
> > >                        |                         |
> > >                        '-------------------------'
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >              .-----------.    .-----------.    .-----------------
> > > -.
> > > Lower level  |   PCIe    |    | VIRTIO    |    |NVMe over Fabrics 
> > > |
> > >              |           |    |           |    |initiator        
> > >  |
> > >              '-----------'    '-----------'    '-----------------
> > > -'
> > > 
> > > todo:
> > > - tune performance. Should be as good as virtio-blk/virtio-scsi
> > > - support discard/flush/integrity
> > > - need Redhat's help for the VIRTIO_ID_NVME pci id
> > > - multi level NVMe stack
> > 
> > Hi Ming,
> 
> Hi Keith,
> 
> > 
> > I'll be out for travel for the next week, so I won't have much time 
> > to
> > do a proper review till the following week.
> > 
> > I think it'd be better to get this hierarchy setup to make the most 
> > reuse
> > possible than to have this much code duplication between the 
> > existing
> > driver and emulated qemu nvme. For better or worse, I think the 
> > generic
> > nvme layer is where things are going. Are you signed up with the 
> > fabrics
> > contributors?
> 
> No. How to sign up?

Ming,

Here is the email Keith sent out on this list that says how to sign up:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2015
-September/002331.html

Jay



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