[PATCH v4 00/20] NVMeTCP Offload ULP

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 7/1/21 3:23 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I looked over it a bit (and will send some individual comments), and I
> have to say I really dislike how this layer and how the hardware works.
> 
> The whole point of NVMe is that we have a nicely standardized PCIe
> register level interface.  One that you can trivially hide a TCP offload
> under with just a little control plane logic.  But instead we come up with
> this gigant mess.
> 
I can't really see how this control plane logic should work; how would 
the entire NVMe-oF discovery be abstracted away to hide behind an 
NVMe-PCI device?

Cheers,

Hannes
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