From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 01:05:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v2 RFC] nvme: improve performance for virtual NVMe devices In-Reply-To: <1461262295.4797.11.camel@ssi> References: <1460657059-21214-1-git-send-email-helen.koike@collabora.co.uk> <5718D697.3050800@collabora.co.uk> <20160421133823.GA13563@infradead.org> <1461262295.4797.11.camel@ssi> Message-ID: <20160503080552.GA13239@infradead.org> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016@11:11:35AM -0700, Ming Lin wrote: > > agreement on it, although once the basic agreement is there it > > shouldn't be too hard to also support the older google specific > > version. And this is no new feedback, a couple of people including > > me said that a long time ago, and we've seen zero action on it. > > For "action", did you mean the "agreement" or the spec extension > proposal? > > I think you'll make the proposal, right? No, we really need Google to bring it in. > I made the mess :) > > I thought this before. > Probably add a new file ext.c and move these code into it. > > Then add a nvme_ext_ops ... Uh, no. Just have some inline helpers that do the right thing for the right "hardware".