On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:41:48PM +0200, David Disseldorp wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 04:12:17 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 12:40:56PM +0800, Zhu Lingshan wrote: > > > Hello Mike and Christoph， > > > Thanks Mike's comment inspired me, if I understand this correctly, it is > > > suggested to implement this whole solution in kernel, avoid > > > splitting PRG handling in both kernel and userspace, make it not that > > > complex. I can try to implement this by sending OSD requests > > > from kernel side, then we don't need tcmu-runner supporting is, no need to > > > use netlink to exchange information with userspace, pure kernel code, > > > seems > > > much more simple. Do you think this may be better? > > > > Yes. And SuSE actually ships such a backend (originally writen by > > Mike), although it would still need some work to get into shape. > > FWIW, the kernel backend is also shipped by petasan. I'd be happy to > restart efforts with Mike to get this in shape for mainline.
That would be great!
