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From: james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com (J Freyensee)
Subject: [RFC PATCH] nvmet: Back namespace with files
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:00:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1489428001.4237.0.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170313163338.GA3324@lst.de>

On Mon, 2017-03-13@17:33 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017@12:11:28PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, the RFC was light on details, and I'm probably getting ahead of
> > myself with the file-as-a-namespaces suggestion.
> 
> No, it's a good idea.??The big question is what we win with explicit
> support in nvmet over just using the loop device.??I actually hacked
> up support earlier and it didn't show any performance advantage.
> That being said we now have the ITER_BVEC type and proper support
> for in-kernel aio, so the code might become simple enough to just take
> it.

If it's easier to setup and maintain and use that could suffice for a lack of
performance advantage.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-13 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-08 21:35 [RFC PATCH] nvmet: Back namespace with files Keith Busch
2017-03-08 21:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-08 22:15   ` Keith Busch
2017-03-08 22:20     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-09 17:41       ` Keith Busch
2017-03-09 17:39         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-13  8:32         ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-03-13 16:11           ` Keith Busch
2017-03-13 16:07             ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-03-13 16:33             ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-13 18:00               ` J Freyensee [this message]
2017-03-08 23:24 ` Sagi Grimberg

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