Re: [PATCH v20 02/12] Add infrastructure for copy offload in block and request layer.

Bart Van Assche
2024-06-28T13:54:00Z

On 6/25/24 10:22 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It's not just dm. You also need it in the partition remapping code
> (mandatory), md (nice to have), etc.
>
> And then we have the whole mess of what is in the payload for the I/O
> stack vs what is in the payload for the on the wire protocol, which
> will have different formatting and potentially also different sizes.

Drivers like dm-linear rely on bio splitting. If the COPY_SRC and
COPY_DST operations travel independently down a stacked block driver
hierarchy, a separate data structure is needed to keep track of which
operations have been split and to combine the split operations into
requests. Isn't this an argument in favor of storing the source and
destination parameters in a single bio?

Thanks,

Bart.