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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ublk: move zone report data out of request pdu
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:26:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7828bf84-ad8b-4fd5-b55e-0cd3fc320fc6@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240810040239.437215-1-ming.lei@redhat.com>

On 8/9/24 10:02 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> ublk zoned takes 16 bytes in each request pdu just for handling REPORT_ZONE
> operation, this way does waste memory since request pdu is allocated
> statically.
> 
> Store the transient zone report data into one global xarray, and remove
> it after the report zone request is completed. This way is reasonable
> since report zone is run in slow code path.

Oof yes, that's a lot better. I think this warrants a:

Fixes: 29802d7ca33b ("ublk: enable zoned storage support")

as that's a pretty big waste, especially when most would not even be
using the zoned support.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-10 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-10  4:02 [PATCH] ublk: move zone report data out of request pdu Ming Lei
2024-08-10 14:26 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2024-08-11  2:03   ` Ming Lei
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-08-14  9:01 Andreas Hindborg

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