[SPDK] bdev layer

[SPDK] bdev layer

[txcy uio]

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Hello

Recently the following was committed :

bdev: add block device abstraction layer

Change-Id: I235cf146a52714756c9782c03b118f518c5f5182
Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp(a)intel.com>


Can someone explain the target use case for this ? Is it provide block
like access using SPDK?


--Tyc

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Re: [SPDK] bdev layer

[Walker, Benjamin]

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On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 15:07 -0700, txcy uio wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> Recently the following was committed :
> 
> 
> bdev: add block device abstraction layer
> Change-Id: I235cf146a52714756c9782c03b118f518c5f5182
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp(a)intel.com>
> 
> Can someone explain the target use case for this ? Is it provide block like access using SPDK? 

This is a generic translation layer that exposes a common "block-like" API we've defined and can
translate to a number of separate backends, including libaio and our NVMe driver. This library needs
quite a bit of work currently, but this is a start at least.

> 
> --Tyc
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> 
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