Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] copy offloading

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 12:27 -0800, Zach Brown wrote:
> Discussing copy offloading at LSF is appropriate because it can involve
> so many layers of the stack:
> 
>  - high level syscall interface
>  - in-kernel high level entry point for nfsd 
>  - fs specific implementations (btrfs and ocfs2 cow, nfs) 
>  - vfs helper for offloading block copies for ext*,xfs
>  - bio offload requests for cow block devices like bcache/dm-cache
>  - encoding offload bios into scsi reqs
>  - processing virt guest device offload requests with host syscalls
> 
> Getting the user and in-kernel interfaces right to support all these
> moving parts has proven tricky.  The more input, the better.
> 
> It's been a while since I sent out a refreshed version of the series.
> That'll be remedied before LSF rolls around :). 
> 

+1

Now that EXTENDED_COPY LID1 target mode logic is upstream, I'm really
eager to start utilizing it Linux host side.  ;)

--nab