[PATCH 7/7 v2] nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Oct 13 02:53:22 PDT 2016


On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 01:12:34PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> You've lost me. The fc-nvme api on the initiator side has a sgl relative to
> the original io request, while the fc-nvmet api on the target side has a
> different sgl from the target fc-nvme transport to the LLDD for the range of
> data to exchange. They are sgl's as they expect to go to fc hw on each side.
> As they are independent sgl's on each side, we have to copy between them.

Oh, right - your target sgls aren't caller provided.  That's a little
sad when looking at this code, but if it doesn't affect real drivers
I guess it's fine in the end.



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