Re: [Patch v5 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 10:06:03AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 8/5/21 12:00 AM, longli@linuxonhyperv.com wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/misc/hv_azure_blob.h b/include/uapi/misc/hv_azure_blob.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..87a3f77
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/include/uapi/misc/hv_azure_blob.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> > +/* Copyright (c) 2021 Microsoft Corporation. */
> > +
> > +#ifndef _AZ_BLOB_H
> > +#define _AZ_BLOB_H
> > +
> > +#include <linux/ioctl.h>
> > +#include <linux/uuid.h>
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > +
> > +/* user-mode sync request sent through ioctl */
> > +struct az_blob_request_sync_response {
> > +	__u32 status;
> > +	__u32 response_len;
> > +};
> > +
> > +struct az_blob_request_sync {
> > +	guid_t guid;
> > +	__u32 timeout;
> > +	__u32 request_len;
> > +	__u32 response_len;
> > +	__u32 data_len;
> > +	__u32 data_valid;
> > +	__aligned_u64 request_buffer;
> > +	__aligned_u64 response_buffer;
> > +	__aligned_u64 data_buffer;
> > +	struct az_blob_request_sync_response response;
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define AZ_BLOB_MAGIC_NUMBER	'R'
> > +#define IOCTL_AZ_BLOB_DRIVER_USER_REQUEST \
> > +		_IOWR(AZ_BLOB_MAGIC_NUMBER, 0xf0, \
> > +			struct az_blob_request_sync)
> > +
> > +#endif /* define _AZ_BLOB_H */
> 
> So this driver only supports synchronous requests? Is it likely that users
> will ask for support of an API that supports having multiple requests
> outstanding at the same time without having to create multiple user space
> threads?

They seem to want to go around the block layer and reinvent it all from
scratch, which is crazy, so let them have their slow i/o :(