On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 15:58 +0000, Stephen Bates wrote: > > Any plans adding the capability to nvme-rdma? Should be > > straight-forward... In theory, the use-case would be rdma backend > > fabric behind. Shouldn't be hard to test either... > > Nice idea Sagi. Yes we have been starting to look at that. Though again we > would probably want to impose the "attached to the same PCIe switch" rule > which might be less common to satisfy in initiator systems. > > Down the road I would also like to discuss the best way to use this P2P > framework to facilitate copies between NVMe namespaces (on both PCIe and > fabric attached namespaces) without having to expose the CMB up to user > space. Wasn't something like that done in the SCSI world at some point > Martin? Are you perhaps referring to the following patch series: "Copy Offload" (https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg74680.html / https://lwn.net/Articles/592094/)? I will contact Martin off-list and in case he wouldn't have the time myself to revive that patch series then I will free up some time to work on this. Bart.
