On 8/11/23 03:52, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
We achieve copy offload by sending 2 bio's with source and destination info and merge them to form a request. This request is sent to driver. So this design works only for request based storage drivers.
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Overall series supports: ======================== 1. Driver - NVMe Copy command (single NS, TP 4065), including support in nvme-target (for block and file back end). 2. Block layer - Block-generic copy (REQ_OP_COPY_DST/SRC), operation with interface accommodating two block-devs - Merging copy requests in request layer - Emulation, for in-kernel user when offload is natively absent - dm-linear support (for cases not requiring split) 3. User-interface - copy_file_range
Is this sufficient? The combination of dm-crypt, dm-linear and the NVMe driver is very common. What is the plan for supporting dm-crypt? Shouldn't bio splitting be supported for dm-linear?
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