On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 08:29:17PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > So this little detail needs to be taken care of somehow as well, and I > didn't see it in this RFC. Yes. Same about generally not mixing P2P and non-P2P. > > > For the block layer just having one kind per BIO is fine right now, > > although I could see use cases where people would want to combine > > them. We can probably defer that until it is needed, though. > > Do you have an application in mind that would want multi-kind per BIO? If you are doing say garbage collection in a file system, and do write that sources data from multiple devices, where some sit directly on the root port and others behind a switch. This is all purely hypothetical, and I'm happy to just check for it and reject it for it now.
