Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] implement direct IO with integrity

["Alexander V. Buev" <a.buev@yadro.com>]

> «Внимание! Данное письмо от внешнего адресата!»
> 
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:46:15PM +0300, Alexander V. Buev wrote:
> > This series of patches makes possible to do direct block IO
> > with integrity payload using io uring kernel interface.
> > Userspace app can utilize new READV_PI/WRITEV_PI operation with a new
> > fields in sqe struct (pi_addr/pi_len) to provide iovec's with
> > integrity data.
> 
> Is this really intended to be used exclusively for PI? Once you give use space
> access to extended metadata regions, they can use it for whatever the user
> wants, which may not be related to protection information formats. Perhaps a
> more generic suffix than "_PI" may be appropriate like _EXT or _META?

Currently we use this code for transfer block IO with meta information 
from user space to special block device driver. This meta information includes PI and some other
information that helps driver to process IO with some optimization, 
special option and etc. In the near feature we can extend this info die to increased
requirements for our product.

Also we can use this code for transfer IO with PI information from user space
to supported block devices such as nvme & scsi.

And you are right. Just for me "_meta" is more appropriate and abstract suffix for this,
but:

 1. "PI" is shortly
 2. "PI" and "integrity" is widely used in block layer code and I decided that
    if it's called PI - everyone understands what exactly it is about.
 3. User can read/write general info only in case of using special block layer driver. 

Anyway I'm ready to rename this things.

May be it's enough to rename only userspace visible part?
(sqe struct members & op codes)


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Alexander V. Buev