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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 03/10] block: Introduce a new ioctl for copy
On 4/26/22 12:12, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> Add new BLKCOPY ioctl that offloads copying of one or more sources ranges
> to one or more destination in a device. COPY ioctl accepts a 'copy_range'
> structure that contains no of range, a reserved field , followed by an
> array of ranges. Each source range is represented by 'range_entry' that
> contains source start offset, destination start offset and length of
> source ranges (in bytes)
>
> MAX_COPY_NR_RANGE, limits the number of entries for the IOCTL and
> MAX_COPY_TOTAL_LENGTH limits the total copy length, IOCTL can handle.
>
> Example code, to issue BLKCOPY:
> /* Sample example to copy three entries with [dest,src,len],
> * [32768, 0, 4096] [36864, 4096, 4096] [40960,8192,4096] on same device */
>
> int main(void)
> {
> int i, ret, fd;
> unsigned long src = 0, dst = 32768, len = 4096;
> struct copy_range *cr;
> cr = (struct copy_range *)malloc(sizeof(*cr)+
> (sizeof(struct range_entry)*3));
> cr->nr_range = 3;
> cr->reserved = 0;
> for (i = 0; i< cr->nr_range; i++, src += len, dst += len) {
> cr->range_list[i].dst = dst;
> cr->range_list[i].src = src;
> cr->range_list[i].len = len;
> cr->range_list[i].comp_len = 0;
> }
> fd = open("/dev/nvme0n1", O_RDWR);
> if (fd < 0) return 1;
> ret = ioctl(fd, BLKCOPY, cr);
> if (ret != 0)
> printf("copy failed, ret= %d\n", ret);
> for (i=0; i< cr->nr_range; i++)
> if (cr->range_list[i].len != cr->range_list[i].comp_len)
> printf("Partial copy for entry %d: requested %llu, completed %llu\n",
> i, cr->range_list[i].len,
> cr->range_list[i].comp_len);
> close(fd);
> free(cr);
> return ret;
> }
>
> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier.gonz@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnav Dawn <arnav.dawn@samsung.com>
> ---
> block/ioctl.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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Dr. Hannes Reinecke Kernel Storage Architect
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
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