Re: [PATCH v11 00/10] Read/Write with meta/integrity

[Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>]

On 04/06/2025 08.39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 04:52:30PM +0530, Anuj Gupta wrote:
>> This adds a new io_uring interface to exchange additional integrity/pi
>> metadata with read/write.
>>
>> Example program for using the interface is appended below [1].
>>
>> The patchset is on top of block/for-next.
>>
>> Testing has been done by modifying fio:
>> https://github.com/SamsungDS/fio/tree/priv/feat/pi-test-v11
> 
> It looks like this never got into upstream fio.  Do you plan to submit
> it?  It would also be extremely useful to have a testing using it in
> blktests, because it seems like we don't have any test coverage for the
> read/write with metadata code at the moment.
> 
> Just bringing this up because I want to be able to properly test the
> metadata side of the nvme/block support for the new DMA mapping API
> and I'm ѕtruggling to come up with good test coverage.
> 

FWIW, we’re interested [1] in helping get this part properly tested as well.
We're already running blktests in CI as part of kdevops, regularly testing
against both linux-next and Linus' latest tags [2].

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z9v-1xjl7dD7Tr-H@bombadil.infradead.org/

[2]
https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops-ci/actions

Shin'ichiro, the current CI implementation is still experimental (we are missing
a few things like archive results and dashboard reporting) but we hope we can
discuss soon the possibility to automatically reporting tests results to the
mailing list