[PATCH 4/6] nvmet: add Verify emulation support for bdev-ns
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Jul 5 01:35:55 PDT 2022
On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 02:14:04AM -0700, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Not all devices can support verify requests which can be mapped to
> the controller specific command. This patch adds a way to emulate
> REQ_OP_VERIFY for NVMeOF block device namespace. We add a new
> workqueue to offload the emulation.
How is this an "emulation"?
Also why do we need the workqueue offloads? I can't see any good
reason to not just simply submit the bio asynchronously like all the
other bios submitted by the block device backend.
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