Hi Bart and David, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> writes: > Although the patch itself looks fine to me: do we really need this kind of > functionality in the kernel? Is it possible to implement the same functionality > in user space? We're having exactly the same discussion in NVMe currently, please see the following thread: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2017-December/014341.html I tend to agree with David (and Sagi for the NVMe case) in that we should handle this in the kernel. Byte, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html