From: james.smart@broadcom.com (James Smart)
Subject: Booting from NVMe over Fabrics
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 08:48:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d3ef427-45ec-82a1-76d4-059e651b17fd@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170624071701.GC14580@lst.de>
On 6/24/2017 12:17 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As long as you don't have weird hardware offloads (which seems rather
> pointless) there is nothing interesting in booting NVMe - yes you'll
> need NVMe-cli, and a working RDMA setup. But that's not any different
> than SRP or iSER, or NFS over RDMA, so we the distros should do the
> same for NVMe that they do for those technolog?es.
You seem to have left off FC. FC would like to boot FC-NVME the same as
it does FC-SCSI/FCP.
The main issue so far is user-level discovery. Swap, kdump, and ensuring
you have connectivity/can run while low-memory, are severely
taxed/at-risk by the user-level paradigms.
-- james
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-25 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-22 13:06 Booting from NVMe over Fabrics Johannes Thumshirn
2017-06-24 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-25 15:48 ` James Smart [this message]
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