Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] dm: dm-user: New target that proxies BIOs to userspace

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Dec 22 2020 - 08:33:59 EST


On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 07:00:57PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> I haven't gotten a whole lot of feedback, so I'm inclined to at least have some
> reasonable performance numbers before bothering with a v2.

FYI, my other main worry beside duplicating nbd is that device mapper
really is a stacked interface that sits on top of other block device.
Turning this into something else that just pipes data to userspace
seems very strange.