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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Yan Liu <yan@purestorage.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] NVMe: Do not take nsid while a passthrough IO command is being issued via a block device file descriptor
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:02:04 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1501261635190.15481@localhost.lm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150125145900.GA15231@infradead.org>

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:57:06PM -0800, Yan Liu wrote:
>> When a passthrough IO command is issued with a specific block device file descriptor. It should be applied at
>> the namespace which is associated with that block device file descriptor. This patch makes such passthrough
>> command ignore nsid in nvme_passthru_cmd structure. Instead it takes the namespace ID asscoiated with the
>> block device descriptor.
>
> This looks good to me.  If Keith can point to a use case for magic or
> hidden nsids we'll have to find a bypass for them, but this certainly
> is the right short term fix:

'Flush' is the only command from the spec where specifying all namespaces
might be desirable. Otherwise, I can't disclose vendor specific behavior
to gain concensus on operating within spec, silly as this desire may
seem. Why empower the driver to make a feature unreachable?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-26 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23 23:57 Yan Liu
2015-01-25 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-26 18:02   ` Keith Busch [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-23  0:02 Yan Liu
2015-01-23  7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-23 16:22   ` Keith Busch
2015-01-23 17:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-23 17:50       ` Keith Busch
2015-01-25 14:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22  0:28 Yan Liu
2015-01-22  0:47 ` Keith Busch
2015-01-22  8:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 15:21     ` Keith Busch
2015-01-22 15:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-22 16:58         ` Keith Busch
     [not found]   ` <CADMsRTZjajAj682a5FH-AmpphoQ4vw5QxqnJiGEQ+Jg_f7TvoA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-22 14:22     ` Keith Busch

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