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From: Zygo Blaxell <ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org>
To: Eric Levy <contact@ericlevy.name>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "hardware-assisted zeroing"
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 20:33:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdT1gEF0zMIN6eQ8@hungrycats.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18d02df50fc7f9c63ff07b5433a445d911538be6.camel@ericlevy.name>

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:26:41PM -0500, Eric Levy wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 20:21 -0500, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> 
> > ZNS SSD devices do address mapping entirely in reverse--in a write
> > command, the host says "append this block to zone Z", the drive
> > chooses
> > a block address for the data within that zone, and sends the written
> > block address back to the host filesystem as part of the command
> > reply.
> > This allows the drive to implement writes in parallel (so they are
> > subject to reordering) without having to store where it put user data
> > in the SSD's own memory.
> 
> How does the host remember the mapping, and where does it get applied
> during followup access?

That's up to the host filesystem implementation.  ZNS devices require
filesystems that speak ZNS protocol.  They don't implement a traditional
LBA-oriented interface (or if they do, they provide a separate logical
device interface for that).

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-05  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-03 11:08 "hardware-assisted zeroing" Eric Levy
2022-01-03 11:17 ` Qu Wenruo
2022-01-03 11:24   ` Eric Levy
2022-01-03 11:51     ` Qu Wenruo
2022-01-04 10:50       ` Eric Levy
2022-01-04 20:49         ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-01-04 22:37           ` Eric Levy
2022-01-04 22:46             ` Qu Wenruo
2022-01-05  0:38               ` Paul Jones
2022-01-05  0:44                 ` Eric Levy
2022-01-05  1:12                   ` Paul Jones
2022-01-05  1:20                     ` Eric Levy
2022-01-05  1:21                   ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-01-05  1:26                     ` Eric Levy
2022-01-05  1:33                       ` Zygo Blaxell [this message]
2022-01-05  1:37                         ` Eric Levy
2022-01-05  2:20                           ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-01-05  1:32             ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-01-04 22:37         ` Qu Wenruo
2022-01-03 11:46 ` David Disseldorp
2022-01-03 11:57   ` Qu Wenruo

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