linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] NVMe: Do not take nsid while a passthrough IO command is being issued via a block device file descriptor

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:02:04 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Yan Liu <yan@...estorage.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] NVMe: Do not take nsid while a passthrough IO command
 is being issued via a block device file descriptor

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:57:06PM -0800, Yan Liu wrote:
>> When a passthrough IO command is issued with a specific block device file descriptor. It should be applied at
>> the namespace which is associated with that block device file descriptor. This patch makes such passthrough
>> command ignore nsid in nvme_passthru_cmd structure. Instead it takes the namespace ID asscoiated with the
>> block device descriptor.
>
> This looks good to me.  If Keith can point to a use case for magic or
> hidden nsids we'll have to find a bypass for them, but this certainly
> is the right short term fix:

'Flush' is the only command from the spec where specifying all namespaces
might be desirable. Otherwise, I can't disclose vendor specific behavior
to gain concensus on operating within spec, silly as this desire may
seem. Why empower the driver to make a feature unreachable?
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