Re: [PATCH] null_blk: add zoned config support information

Jens Axboe
2019-01-06T19:23:35Z

On 1/4/19 1:37 PM, John Pittman wrote:
> Thanks Bart; I made the changes and sent them in as a v2, I'm sure you
> already saw. I have a quick, unrelated question if you have a moment.
> In testing the null_blk driver, I found that trim commands sent by fio
> were rejected due to lack of support. Tracking down Shaohua's commit
> 306eb6b4a ("nullb: support discard"), he mentions that "discard makes
> sense for memory backed disk". Just to see what would happen, I
> edited the source to make discard a configurable parameter at
> modprobe, and after the edit & build, the trim commands submitted
> fine. Does this sort of change make sense? I mean the ability to do
> discard to null_blk without it being memory backed; solely for
> testing/benchmarking purposes. I haven't found any good instructions
> on creating a memory backed or discard enabled null_blk device from
> the command line, so I assume a higher level driver would have to hook
> in and enable these features manually. Thanks for your time and any
> information.

I think that would be fine, no option needed. It's really no different
than reads/writes being completed without having a memory backing.

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Jens Axboe