Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:45:59 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] add simple copy support |
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Hi!
> > Good idea. Are you thinking of a sysfs entry to select the backend? > > Not sure on this one, initially I thought of a sysfs file, but then > how would you do it. One "global" sysfs entry is probably a bad idea. > Having one per block device to select native vs emulation maybe? And > a good way to benchmark. > > The other idea would be a benchmark loop on boot like the raid library > does.
Doing copy benchmarking would require writes on the media, right?
Kernel should not do such stuff without userspace requesting it...
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