[PATCH 0/1] nvmet: add basic in-memory backend support

hch at lst.de hch at lst.de
Thu Nov 6 03:50:48 PST 2025


On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 01:20:41AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi Hannes and Christoph,
> 
> 
> On 11/5/25 05:14, hch at lst.de wrote:
> > But what is the use that requires removing all that overhead / indirection?
> >
> > I think you need to describe that very clearly to make a case.  And
> > maybe drop a lot of the marketing sounding overly dramatatic language
> > that really does not help the case.
> 
> the quantitative data that proves removing all overhead/indirection
> gives better performance for nvmet-mem-backend against null_blk
> membacked and brd. Here is the link for the comparative data :-

But what is the use case?  Why do you care about performance of a
non-persistent DRAM-bound backend?




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