[dm-devel] ANNOUNCE: SCSI XCOPY support for the kernel and device mapper
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Tue Jul 15 18:55:13 UTC 2014
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 02:33:13PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
>
> I annouce that I released the first version of a patch set that makes it
> possible to use SCSI XCOPY offload for the block layer and device mapper.
>
> The patchset is at
> http://people.redhat.com/~mpatocka/patches/kernel/xcopy/series.html It
> requires kernel version at least 3.16-rc4. It was tested on target-core
> iSCSI implementation.
Can you send the series to the mainling list(s)? That makes it a lot
easier to do a quick review.
> The dm-kcopyd subsystem is modified to use the XCOPY command, so device
> mapper targets that use it (mirror, snapshot, thin, cache) take advantage
> of copy offload automatically.
That sounds good, do you have any benchmarking data that shows the
advantage of using XCOPY?
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