Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] nvme: support NVMe v1.3d, SGLs and multiple namespaces

[Klaus Birkelund]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:38:40PM +0200, Klaus Jensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Quick note to Fam): most of this series is irrelevant to you as the
> maintainer of the nvme block driver, but patch "nvme: add support for
> scatter gather lists" touches block/nvme.c due to changes in the shared
> NvmeCmd struct.
> 
> Anyway, v2 comes with a good bunch of changes. Compared to v1[1], I have
> squashed some commits in the beginning of the series and heavily
> refactored "nvme: support multiple block requests per request" into the
> new commit "nvme: allow multiple aios per command".
> 
> I have also removed the original implementation of the Abort command
> (commit "nvme: add support for the abort command") as it is currently
> too tricky to test reliably. It has been replaced by a stub that,
> besides a trivial sanity check, just fails to abort the given command.
> *Some* implementation of the Abort command is mandatory, but given the
> "best effort" nature of the command this is acceptable for now. When the
> device gains support for arbitration it should be less tricky to test.
> 
> The support for multiple namespaces is now backwards compatible. The
> nvme device still accepts a 'drive' parameter, but for multiple
> namespaces the use of 'nvme-ns' devices are required. I also integrated
> some feedback from Paul so the device supports non-consecutive namespace
> ids.
> 
> I have also added some new commits at the end:
> 
>   - "nvme: bump controller pci device id" makes sure the Linux kernel
>     doesn't apply any quirks to the controller that it no longer has.
>   - "nvme: handle dma errors" won't actually do anything before this[2]
>     fix to include/hw/pci/pci.h is merged. With these two patches added,
>     the device reliably passes some additional nasty tests from blktests
>     (block/011 "disable PCI device while doing I/O" and block/019 "break
>     PCI link device while doing I/O"). Before this patch, block/011
>     would pass from time to time if you were lucky, but would at least
>     mess up the controller pretty badly, causing a reset in the best
>     case.
> 
> 
>   [1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/list/?series=142383
>   [2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11184911/
> 
> 
> Klaus Jensen (20):
>   nvme: remove superfluous breaks
>   nvme: move device parameters to separate struct
>   nvme: add missing fields in the identify controller data structure
>   nvme: populate the mandatory subnqn and ver fields
>   nvme: allow completion queues in the cmb
>   nvme: add support for the abort command
>   nvme: refactor device realization
>   nvme: add support for the get log page command
>   nvme: add support for the asynchronous event request command
>   nvme: add logging to error information log page
>   nvme: add missing mandatory features
>   nvme: bump supported specification version to 1.3
>   nvme: refactor prp mapping
>   nvme: allow multiple aios per command
>   nvme: add support for scatter gather lists
>   nvme: support multiple namespaces
>   nvme: bump controller pci device id
>   nvme: remove redundant NvmeCmd pointer parameter
>   nvme: make lba data size configurable
>   nvme: handle dma errors
> 
>  block/nvme.c           |   18 +-
>  hw/block/Makefile.objs |    2 +-
>  hw/block/nvme-ns.c     |  139 +++
>  hw/block/nvme-ns.h     |   60 ++
>  hw/block/nvme.c        | 1863 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  hw/block/nvme.h        |  219 ++++-
>  hw/block/trace-events  |   37 +-
>  include/block/nvme.h   |  132 ++-
>  8 files changed, 2094 insertions(+), 376 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 hw/block/nvme-ns.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/block/nvme-ns.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.23.0
> 

Gentle ping on this.

I'm aware that this is a lot to go through, but I would like to know if
anyone has had a chance to look at it?


https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/list/?series=187637