Re: [GIT PULL 24/25] lightnvm: pblk: add iostat support

[Javier GonzÃlez]

> On 8 Jan 2018, at 12.54, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:33:36PM +0100, Matias BjÃrling wrote:
>> On 01/05/2018 04:42 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Matias BjÃrling wrote:
>>>> From: Javier GonzÃlez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> 
>>>> Since pblk registers its own block device, the iostat accounting is
>>>> not automatically done for us. Therefore, add the necessary
>>>> accounting logic to satisfy the iostat interface.
>>> 
>>> Ignorant question - why is it a raw block device, not using blk-mq?
>> 
>> The current flow is using the raw block device, together with the blk-mq
>> nvme device driver. A bio is sent down to the nvme_nvm_submit_io() path in
>> the /drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c file. From there it attaches the to NVMe
>> blk-mq implementation.
>> 
>> Is there a better way to do it?
> 
> I suspect the right way to do things is to split NVMe for different
> I/O command sets, and make this an I/O command set.

This makes sense. This was actually how I implemented it to start with,
but I changed it to be less intrusive on the nvme path. Let's revert the
patch and we can add it back when we push the 2.0 patches.

> But before touching much of NVMe, I'd really, really like to see an
> actual spec first.

The 2.0 spec. is open and is available here [1]. I thought you had
looked into it already... Anyway, feedback is more than welcome.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kedBY_1-hfkAlqT4EdwY6gz-6UOZbn7kIjWpmBLPNj0

Javier