On 8/17/21 3:14 AM, SelvaKumar S wrote:
Introduce REQ_OP_COPY, a no-merge copy offload operation. Create
bio with control information as payload and submit to the device.
Larger copy operation may be divided if necessary by looking at device
limits. REQ_OP_COPY(19) is a write op and takes zone_write_lock when
submitted to zoned device.
Native copy offload is not supported for stacked devices.
Using a single operation for copy-offloading instead of separate operations for reading and writing is fundamentally incompatible with the device mapper. I think we need a copy-offloading implementation that is compatible with the device mapper.
Storing the parameters of the copy operation in the bio payload is incompatible with the current implementation of bio_split().
In other words, I think there are fundamental problems with this patch series.
Bart.