linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] dm: dm-user: New target that proxies BIOs to userspace

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Message-ID: <6fb5be2d-c6ca-c21b-dddf-9b314973dcfe@acm.org>
Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:38:53 -0800
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     snitzer@...hat.com, corbet@....net, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, song@...nel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, shuah@...nel.org, agk@...hat.com,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] dm: dm-user: New target that proxies
 BIOs to userspace

On 12/7/20 10:55 AM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> All in all, I've found it a bit hard to figure out what sort of interest
> people
> have in dm-user: when I bring this up I seem to run into people who've done
> similar things before and are vaguely interested, but certainly nobody is
> chomping at the bit.  I'm sending it out in this early state to try and
> figure
> out if it's interesting enough to keep going.

Cc-ing Josef and Mike since their nbd contributions make me wonder
whether this new driver could be useful to their use cases?

Thanks,

Bart.