From: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@daterainc.com>,
target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
Oren Duer <oren@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] target/rd: Add DIF protection into rd_execute_rw
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:23:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D28946.3000202@dev.mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq11u0fr1gr.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
On 1/10/2014 11:06 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Sagi" == Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> writes:
> Sagi> I wander how we can skip sbc_dif_verify_xxxx if the transport
> Sagi> already offloaded DIF verify. I think that the transport should
> Sagi> signal the core layer that it is able to offload DIF
> Sagi> (ADD/STRIP/PASS/VERIFY), in which case the core should turn off
> Sagi> the backstore DIF verify emulation to sustain performance.
>
> Yeah, for SAS and FC it would be nice to leverage DIX and let the ASIC
> do the actual checking and splitting. I assume the same is true for your
> hw.
>
Correct! we should avoid a duplicate DIF processing. if the HW supports
offloading DIF processing, target core can shutdown backstore
verfy_read/verify_write methods.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-08 20:15 [PATCH 00/14] target: Initial support for DIF Type1+Type3 emulation Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 01/14] target: Add DIF related base definitions Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-09 10:58 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 02/14] target: Add DIF CHECK_CONDITION ASC/ASCQ exception cases Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-09 10:43 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 6:53 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-14 7:44 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-14 8:53 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-14 10:56 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 03/14] target/sbc: Add sbc_check_prot + update sbc_parse_cdb for DIF Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-09 14:58 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 7:04 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-12 11:59 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-13 19:23 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 20:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 04/14] target/sbc: Add DIF TYPE1+TYPE3 read/write verify emulation Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 05/14] target/spc: Add protection bit to standard INQUIRY output Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 20:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 06/14] target/spc: Add protection related bits to INQUIRY EVPD=0x86 Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 20:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 07/14] target/sbc: Add P_TYPE + PROT_EN bits to READ_CAPACITY_16 Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-09 10:24 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 6:21 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 19:50 ` Andy Grover
2014-01-10 20:15 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 20:46 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 11:49 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 20:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-10 20:39 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 12:13 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-12 12:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 12:47 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-12 12:53 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 16:37 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-01-12 17:21 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 18:53 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-01-13 16:33 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-12 12:13 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 20:37 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 08/14] target/spc: Expose ATO bit in control mode page Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 20:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 09/14] target/configfs: Expose protection device attributes Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-09 11:01 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 7:00 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-12 11:56 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 21:01 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 12:18 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-12 12:43 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 12:52 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-13 18:30 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-13 18:52 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-13 19:27 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-13 19:43 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-13 20:19 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-13 20:24 ` James Bottomley
2014-01-13 20:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 10/14] target: Add protection SGLs to target_submit_cmd_map_sgls Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 11/14] target/rd: Refactor rd_build_device_space + rd_release_device_space Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 12/14] target/rd: Add support for protection SGL setup + release Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 13/14] target/rd: Add DIF protection into rd_execute_rw Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-09 10:32 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-10 6:52 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-12 11:53 ` Sagi Grimberg
2014-01-13 19:22 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 21:06 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-12 12:23 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2014-01-08 20:15 ` [PATCH 14/14] tcm_loop: Enable DIF/DIX modes in SCSI host LLD Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-10 21:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-13 18:45 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-13 20:08 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-10 2:00 ` [PATCH 00/14] target: Initial support for DIF Type1+Type3 emulation Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-10 5:57 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-15 18:03 ` sagi grimberg
2014-01-15 21:55 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-16 1:42 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-16 2:32 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-01-16 3:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-01-16 7:45 ` sagi grimberg
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=52D28946.3000202@dev.mellanox.co.il \
--to=sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il \
--cc=hare@suse.de \
--cc=hch@lst.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=martin.petersen@oracle.com \
--cc=nab@daterainc.com \
--cc=nab@linux-iscsi.org \
--cc=ogerlitz@mellanox.com \
--cc=oren@mellanox.com \
--cc=sagig@mellanox.com \
--cc=target-devel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).