Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] support non power of 2 zoned devices

Damien Le Moal
2022-05-19T03:19:29Z

On 5/19/22 12:12, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:08:26PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> On 5/18/22 00:34, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:10:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> I'm a little surprised about all this activity.
>>>>
>>>> I though the conclusion at LSF/MM was that for Linux itself there
>>>> is very little benefit in supporting this scheme. It will massively
>>>> fragment the supported based of devices and applications, while only
>>>> having the benefit of supporting some Samsung legacy devices.
>>>
>>> FWIW,
>>>
>>> That wasn't my impression from that LSF/MM session, but once the
>>> videos become available, folks can decide for themselves.
>>
>> There was no real discussion about zone size constraint on the zone
>> storage BoF. Many discussions happened in the hallway track though.
>
> Right so no direct clear blockers mentioned at all during the BoF.

Nor any clear OK.

>
> Luis

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research