Re: [LSF/MM/BPF BoF] BoF for Zoned Storage

Dave Chinner
2022-03-04T00:10:28Z

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:56:54PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Thinking proactively about LSFMM, regarding just Zone storage..
>
> I'd like to propose a BoF for Zoned Storage. The point of it is
> to address the existing point points we have and take advantage of
> having folks in the room we can likely settle on things faster which
> otherwise would take years.
>
> I'll throw at least one topic out:
>
> * Raw access for zone append for microbenchmarks:
> - are we really happy with the status quo?
> - if not what outlets do we have?
>
> I think the nvme passthrogh stuff deserves it's own shared
> discussion though and should not make it part of the BoF.

Reading through the discussion on this thread, perhaps this session
should be used to educate application developers about how to use
ZoneFS so they never need to manage low level details of zone
storage such as enumerating zones, controlling write pointers
safely for concurrent IO, performing zone resets, etc.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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