From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Keith Busch <keith.busch@wdc.com>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/8] block: introduce zone_write_granularity limit
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:54:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1y2g3teb3.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210128044733.503606-6-damien.lemoal@wdc.com> (Damien Le Moal's message of "Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:47:30 +0900")
Damien,
> Per ZBC and ZAC specifications, host-managed SMR hard-disks mandate that
> all writes into sequential write required zones be aligned to the device
> physical block size. However, NVMe ZNS does not have this constraint and
> allows write operations into sequential zones to be aligned to the
> device logical block size. This inconsistency does not help with
> software portability across device types.
>
> To solve this, introduce the zone_write_granularity queue limit to
> indicate the alignment constraint, in bytes, of write operations into
> zones of a zoned block device. This new limit is exported as a
> read-only sysfs queue attribute and the helper
> blk_queue_zone_write_granularity() introduced for drivers to set this
> limit.
>
> The function blk_queue_set_zoned() is modified to set this new limit to
> the device logical block size by default. NVMe ZNS devices as well as
> zoned nullb devices use this default value as is. The scsi disk driver
> is modified to execute the blk_queue_zone_write_granularity() helper to
> set the zone write granularity of host-managed SMR disks to the disk
> physical block size.
>
> The accessor functions queue_zone_write_granularity() and
> bdev_zone_write_granularity() are also introduced.
Looks fine.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-05 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-28 4:47 [PATCH v4 0/8] block: add zone write granularity limit Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] block: document zone_append_max_bytes attribute Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 10:20 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] nvme: cleanup zone information initialization Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 9:27 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] nullb: use blk_queue_set_zoned() to setup zoned devices Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 5:12 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-01-28 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 11:17 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] block: use blk_queue_set_zoned in add_partition() Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 5:16 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-01-28 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 11:28 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] block: introduce zone_write_granularity limit Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 11:32 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-02-05 2:54 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] zonefs: use zone write granularity as block size Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 5:17 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-01-28 11:33 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] block: introduce blk_queue_clear_zone_settings() Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 5:26 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-01-28 9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 9:32 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 11:43 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-01-28 4:47 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] sd_zbc: clear zone resources for non-zoned case Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 5:38 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-01-28 5:40 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 9:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 9:36 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-01-28 11:48 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-02-05 2:56 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-02-04 8:47 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] block: add zone write granularity limit Damien Le Moal
2021-02-08 17:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-10 14:45 ` Jens Axboe
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