From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A33DC433FE for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1081B2184D for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 03:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730103AbgLJDjp (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:39:45 -0500 Received: from mail-pf1-f194.google.com ([209.85.210.194]:45015 "EHLO mail-pf1-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729136AbgLJDjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:39:37 -0500 Received: by mail-pf1-f194.google.com with SMTP id f9so2736386pfc.11; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:39:22 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vl3B7XtbEhQjt2nq8MXPBFdyJIVZUFP3ezbjFEmRzg8=; b=ecgffhcT4fpoyypTmpgIoOigMAIhaRhOriXOhdIrvGb8Mw5BVHA5CyMSA1evXFHITX OqvmdPUKlfx+RoYkE4GPvc8N/LOWhspeAfhsJCsvlykZht/qrivh/L6DSul6txih2nf1 LBnOcv/fGgWpBUb7OEEX83z27uoUaxymB5ZtfrRaGIph1CYFU3b4M5VifhYoXb83yDJO q2u68quyjHa/0NcFFeFaSP75Ppu+BJjJsc2/HPACmOGf8U0QgvRCb5Xu/+1CD2EFNwC8 3Qcvx5MnDc5sGP0hT2KVhxcFY94o9M0Oh271O3ny84gtlU/StPZ38WdQAFQQ6yDayyMs Da0g== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5330b1FF6d+5nY9AcaXe39uzye+JAnJ88zIgoBb1zOLm/atWedVh Fy8+hCcwCmVfNSpylPYp/FQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyk5LMpvJBOnoJv/cjrpAyasLKu4LBxr7jKQq4OCERkzn7Dwo1S3bQcoGiBB3763Qi0ahgwYw== X-Received: by 2002:a63:fe41:: with SMTP id x1mr4835088pgj.254.1607571536653; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:38:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.3.217] (c-73-241-217-19.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [73.241.217.19]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b4sm3743505pju.33.2020.12.09.19.38.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:38:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] dm: dm-user: New target that proxies BIOs to userspace To: Palmer Dabbelt , Christoph Hellwig Cc: snitzer@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, kernel-team@android.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, song@kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, agk@redhat.com, Josef Bacik , Mike Christie References: From: Bart Van Assche Message-ID: <6fb5be2d-c6ca-c21b-dddf-9b314973dcfe@acm.org> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:38:53 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org On 12/7/20 10:55 AM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > All in all, I've found it a bit hard to figure out what sort of interest > people > have in dm-user: when I bring this up I seem to run into people who've done > similar things before and are vaguely interested, but certainly nobody is > chomping at the bit.  I'm sending it out in this early state to try and > figure > out if it's interesting enough to keep going. Cc-ing Josef and Mike since their nbd contributions make me wonder whether this new driver could be useful to their use cases? Thanks, Bart.