[PATCH v4 00/10] Add Copy offload support

[Damien Le Moal]

On 4/26/22 19:12, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> The patch series covers the points discussed in November 2021 virtual call
> [LSF/MM/BFP TOPIC] Storage: Copy Offload[0].
> We have covered the Initial agreed requirements in this patchset.
> Patchset borrows Mikulas's token based approach for 2 bdev
> implementation.
> 
> Overall series supports –
> 
> 1. Driver
> - NVMe Copy command (single NS), including support in nvme-target (for
>     block and file backend)

It would also be nice to have copy offload emulation in null_blk for testing.

> 
> 2. Block layer
> - Block-generic copy (REQ_COPY flag), with interface accommodating
>     two block-devs, and multi-source/destination interface
> - Emulation, when offload is natively absent
> - dm-linear support (for cases not requiring split)
> 
> 3. User-interface
> - new ioctl
> - copy_file_range for zonefs
> 
> 4. In-kernel user
> - dm-kcopyd
> - copy_file_range in zonefs
> 
> For zonefs copy_file_range - Seems we cannot levearge fstest here. Limited
> testing is done at this point using a custom application for unit testing.
> 
> Appreciate the inputs on plumbing and how to test this further?
> Perhaps some of it can be discussed during LSF/MM too.
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/CA+1E3rJ7BZ7LjQXXTdX+-0Edz=zT14mmPGMiVCzUgB33C60tbQ@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - added copy_file_range support for zonefs
> - added documentaion about new sysfs entries
> - incorporated review comments on v3
> - minor fixes
> 
> 
> Arnav Dawn (2):
>   nvmet: add copy command support for bdev and file ns
>   fs: add support for copy file range in zonefs
> 
> Nitesh Shetty (7):
>   block: Introduce queue limits for copy-offload support
>   block: Add copy offload support infrastructure
>   block: Introduce a new ioctl for copy
>   block: add emulation for copy
>   nvme: add copy offload support
>   dm: Add support for copy offload.
>   dm: Enable copy offload for dm-linear target
> 
> SelvaKumar S (1):
>   dm kcopyd: use copy offload support
> 
>  Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block |  83 +++++++
>  block/blk-lib.c                      | 358 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  block/blk-map.c                      |   2 +-
>  block/blk-settings.c                 |  59 +++++
>  block/blk-sysfs.c                    | 138 +++++++++++
>  block/blk.h                          |   2 +
>  block/ioctl.c                        |  32 +++
>  drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c               |  55 +++-
>  drivers/md/dm-linear.c               |   1 +
>  drivers/md/dm-table.c                |  45 ++++
>  drivers/md/dm.c                      |   6 +
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c             | 116 ++++++++-
>  drivers/nvme/host/fc.c               |   4 +
>  drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h             |   7 +
>  drivers/nvme/host/pci.c              |  25 ++
>  drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c             |   6 +
>  drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c              |  14 ++
>  drivers/nvme/host/trace.c            |  19 ++
>  drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c      |   8 +-
>  drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c    |  65 +++++
>  drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-file.c    |  49 ++++
>  fs/zonefs/super.c                    | 178 ++++++++++++-
>  fs/zonefs/zonefs.h                   |   1 +
>  include/linux/blk_types.h            |  21 ++
>  include/linux/blkdev.h               |  17 ++
>  include/linux/device-mapper.h        |   5 +
>  include/linux/nvme.h                 |  43 +++-
>  include/uapi/linux/fs.h              |  23 ++
>  28 files changed, 1367 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: e7d6987e09a328d4a949701db40ef63fbb970670


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research