Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Add Copy offload support

From: Damien Le Moal
Date: Wed Apr 27 2022 - 18:06:39 EST


On 4/27/22 21:49, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> O Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:19:48AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> We can plan this in next phase of copy support, once this series settles down.

So how can people test your series ? Not a lot of drives out there with
copy support.

>
> --
> Nitesh Shetty
>
>


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research