[dm-devel] [LSF/MM/BFP ATTEND] [LSF/MM/BFP TOPIC] Storage: Copy Offload

[Logan Gunthorpe]

On 2020-01-08 3:17 a.m., Javier González wrote:
> I think this is good topic and I would like to participate in the
> discussion too. I think that Logan Gunthorpe would also be interested
> (Cc). Adding Kanchan too, who is also working on this and can contribute
> to the discussion
> 
> We discussed this in the context of P2P at different SNIA events in the
> context of computational offloads and also as the backend implementation
> for Simple Copy, which is coming in NVMe. Discussing this (again) at
> LSF/MM and finding a way to finally get XCOPY merged would be great.

Yes, I would definitely be interested in discussing copy offload
especially in the context of P2P. Sorting out a userspace interface for
this that supports a P2P use case would be very beneficial to a lot of
folks.

Thanks,

Logan