Re: [PATCH 15/17] nvme: track shared namespaces

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Javier
> On 18 Oct 2017, at 18.52, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Introduce a new struct nvme_ns_head that holds information about an actual
> namespace, unlike struct nvme_ns, which only holds the per-controller
> namespace information.  For private namespaces there is a 1:1 relation of
> the two, but for shared namespaces this lets us discover all the paths to
> it.  For now only the identifiers are moved to the new structure, but most
> of the information in struct nvme_ns should eventually move over.
> 
> To allow lockless path lookup the list of nvme_ns structures per
> nvme_ns_head is protected by SRCU, which requires freeing the nvme_ns
> structure through call_srcu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvme/host/core.c     | 192 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c |  14 ++--
> drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h     |  21 ++++-
> 3 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> 
LGTM

Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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