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From: kbusch@kernel.org (Keith Busch)
Subject: No subject
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:21:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190321162140.GA29342@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190321161239.GH31434@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019@04:12:39PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> mdev-nvme seems like a duplication of SPDK.  The performance is not
> better and the features are more limited, so why focus on this approach?
> 
> One argument might be that the kernel NVMe subsystem wants to offer this
> functionality and loading the kernel module is more convenient than
> managing SPDK to some users.
> 
> Thoughts?

Doesn't SPDK bind a controller to a single process? mdev binds to
namespaces (or their partitions), so you could have many mdev's assigned
to many VMs accessing a single controller.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-21 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-19 14:41 No subject Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] vfio/mdev: add .request callback Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] nvme/core: add some more values from the spec Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] nvme/core: add NVME_CTRL_SUSPENDED controller state Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] nvme/pci: use the NVME_CTRL_SUSPENDED state Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20  2:54   ` Fam Zheng
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] nvme/pci: add known admin effects to augument admin effects log page Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] nvme/pci: init shadow doorbell after each reset Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] nvme/core: add mdev interfaces Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20 11:46   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-03-20 12:50     ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] nvme/core: add nvme-mdev core driver Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] nvme/pci: implement the mdev external queue allocation interface Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 14:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] RFC: NVME VFIO mediated device Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-25 18:52   ` [PATCH 0/9] RFC: NVME VFIO mediated device [BENCHMARKS] Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-26  9:38     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-03-26  9:50       ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-19 15:22 ` your mail Keith Busch
2019-03-19 23:49   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-03-20 16:44     ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20 16:30   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20 17:03     ` Keith Busch
2019-03-20 17:33       ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-04-08 10:04   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20 11:03 ` No subject Felipe Franciosi
2019-03-20 19:08   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-21 16:12     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-03-21 16:21       ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-03-21 16:41         ` Felipe Franciosi
2019-03-21 17:04           ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-22  7:54             ` Felipe Franciosi
2019-03-22 10:32               ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-22 15:30               ` Keith Busch
2019-03-25 15:44                 ` Felipe Franciosi
2019-03-20 15:08 ` [PATCH 0/9] RFC: NVME VFIO mediated device Bart Van Assche
2019-03-20 16:48   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20 15:28 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-03-20 16:42   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-20 17:03     ` Alex Williamson
2019-03-21 16:13 ` your mail Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-03-21 17:07   ` Maxim Levitsky
2019-03-25 16:46     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-10-05 13:39 No subject Christoph Hellwig
2018-02-02  6:54 Jianchao Wang
2017-09-13 18:15 unmesh rathi
2017-04-21 23:23 Sandeep Mann
2017-02-07  0:22 Scott Bauer
2017-02-07  0:46 ` Jens Axboe
2014-11-10  6:39 Libo Chen
2014-11-10  3:11 Libo Chen

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