[SPDK] Request for more details on SPDK driver API.

[Sreeni (Sreenivasa) Busam (Stellus) <s.busam at stellus.com>]

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I am new to SPDK driver and trying to understand the various API's available to do I/O on NVMe local device and using NVMeoF protocol on a target device.
I see different interfaces for the read and write I/O operations.
It seems there are two types of interfaces available.
1. spdk_nvme_ns_cmd_read() and spdk_nvme_ns_cmd_write() and related function. This is used for PCIe devices. It seems to apply to devices attached locally.
2. spdk_bdev_read_blocks() and spdk_bdev_write_blocks() and related API's in lib/bdev.
I have been looking at the code and trying to understand how this API and related APIs for the module has been used, the API's in 2. are used for blobfs I/O operation spdk/lib/blob/bdev/*, when there is a blob filesystem and for I/O operation on NVMe devices using NVMeoF protocol spdk/lib/nvmf/*.
Is this a correct assumption? Is the lib/bdev layer developed to address only these cases?
Can the lib/bdev API be used on a local NVMe device? If so, is there a test program to understand how to create a bdev device and do the I/O on NVMe SSD block device?
Please let me know if there is an example to understand how to use the lib/nvmf interfaces. I want to test a device on remote target using NVMeoF protocol.

Thanks very much for any help in the lib/bdev API.



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