New subsystem for acceleration devices

[Oded Gabbay]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:16 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Btw, there is another interesting thing around on the block:
>
> NVMe Computational Storage devices.  Don't be fooled by the name, much
> of it is not about neither computation not storage, but it allows to
> use the existing NVMe queuing model model to allow access to arbitrary
> accelerators, including a way to expose access to on-device memory.
>
> The probably most current version is here:
>
> https://www.snia.org/educational-library/nvme-computational-storage-update-standard-2022
Thanks for the link. Indeed, there were some people in the BOF that
mentioned computational storage as something that is relevant.
I'll watch the presentation to understand the direction it is going
and how it maps to what we were planning to do.

>
> The first version will be rather limited and miss some important
> functionality like directly accessing host DRAM or CXL integration,
> but much of that is planned.  The initial version also probably won't
> be able to be supported by Linux at all, but we need to think hard about
> how to support it.
>
> It woud also be really elpful to get more people with accelerator
> experience into the NVMe working group.
I will be happy to help and contribute.

Oded