Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] block: introduce blk_queue_clear_zone_settings()

Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28T09:36:31Z

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:32:22AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2021/01/28 18:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 01:47:32PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> >> Introduce the internal function blk_queue_clear_zone_settings() to
> >> cleanup all limits and resources related to zoned block devices. This
> >> new function is called from blk_queue_set_zoned() when a disk zoned
> >> model is set to BLK_ZONED_NONE. This particular case can happens when a
> >> partition is created on a host-aware scsi disk.
> >
> > Shouldn't we just do all this work when blk_queue_set_zoned is called
> > with a BLK_ZONED_NONE argument? That seems like the more obvious API
> > to me.
>
> That is what I did. blk_queue_set_zoned() calls blk_queue_clear_zone_settings()
> for BLK_ZONED_NONE case. I simply did not open code the cleanups in that
> functions because it is simpler to stub only blk_queue_clear_zone_settings()
> rather than having conditionals in blk_queue_set_zoned(). That also puts the
> cleanup function together with the code that allocates most resources in
> blk-zoned.c. Easier to not overlook something.

Ok, looks good to me then:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>