This patchset tries to add support for TP4065a ("Simple Copy Command"), v2020.05.04 ("Ratified") The Specification can be found in following link. https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-1.4-Ratified-TPs-1.zip This is an RFC. Looking forward for any feedbacks or other alternate designs for plumbing simple copy to IO stack. Simple copy command is a copy offloading operation and is used to copy multiple contiguous ranges (source_ranges) of LBA's to a single destination LBA within the device reducing traffic between host and device. This implementation accepts destination, no of sources and arrays of source ranges from application and attach it as payload to the bio and submits to the device. Following limits are added to queue limits and are exposed in sysfs to userspace - *max_copy_sectors* limits the sum of all source_range length - *max_copy_nr_ranges* limits the number of source ranges - *max_copy_range_sectors* limit the maximum number of sectors that can constitute a single source range. SelvaKumar S (2): block: add simple copy support nvme: add simple copy support block/blk-core.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- block/blk-lib.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ block/blk-merge.c | 2 + block/blk-settings.c | 11 ++++ block/blk-sysfs.c | 23 ++++++++ block/blk-zoned.c | 1 + block/bounce.c | 1 + block/ioctl.c | 43 ++++++++++++++ drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 4 ++ include/linux/bio.h | 1 + include/linux/blk_types.h | 7 +++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 15 +++++ include/linux/nvme.h | 45 +++++++++++++-- include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 21 +++++++ 15 files changed, 473 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1