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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 3/9] block: Add VFIO based NVMe driver


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 3/9] block: Add VFIO based NVMe driver
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:44:36 -0600
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On 01/10/2018 03:18 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> This is a new protocol driver that exclusively opens a host NVMe
> controller through VFIO. It achieves better latency than linux-aio by
> completely bypassing host kernel vfs/block layer.
> 

> +static BlockDriver bdrv_nvme = {
> +    .format_name              = "nvme",
> +    .protocol_name            = "nvme",
> +    .instance_size            = sizeof(BDRVNVMeState),
> +
> +    .bdrv_parse_filename      = nvme_parse_filename,
> +    .bdrv_file_open           = nvme_file_open,
> +    .bdrv_close               = nvme_close,
> +    .bdrv_getlength           = nvme_getlength,
> +
> +    .bdrv_co_preadv           = nvme_co_preadv,
> +    .bdrv_co_pwritev          = nvme_co_pwritev,
> +    .bdrv_co_flush_to_disk    = nvme_co_flush,
> +    .bdrv_reopen_prepare      = nvme_reopen_prepare,
> +
> +    .bdrv_co_get_block_status = nvme_co_get_block_status,

Semantic conflict with my pending patches to switch to byte-based block
status in the drivers.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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