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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] nvme: allow 64-bit results in passthru commands
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On 8/19/2019 7:49 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:06:23AM -0700, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
>> ----- On 16 Aug, 2019, at 15:16, Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de wrote:
>>> Sorry for not replying to the earlier version, and thanks for doing
>>> this work.
>>>
>>> I wonder if instead of using our own structure we'd just use
>>> a full nvme SQE for the input and CQE for that output. Even if we
>>> reserve a few fields that means we are ready for any newly used
>>> field (at least until the SQE/CQE sizes are expanded..).
>> We could do that, nvme_command and nvme_completion are already UAPI.
>> On the other hand that would mean not filling out certain fields like
>> command_id. Can do an approach like this.
> Well, we need to pass user space addresses and lengths, which isn't
> captured in struct nvme_command.
>
This is going to be fun.  It's going to have to be a cooperative effort
between app and transport. There will always need to be some parts of
the SQE filled out by the transport like SGL, command type/subtype bits,
as well as dealing with buffers as Keith states. Command ID is another
of those fields.

-- james


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