From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hare@suse.de, Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] scsi_debug: host managed ZBC + doublestore
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:19:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1mu7fug6k.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200225062351.21267-1-dgilbert@interlog.com> (Douglas Gilbert's message of "Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:23:37 -0500")
Evening Doug!
> The major addition is support for host-managed ZBC devices. The bulk
> of the work in this area was done by Damien Le Moal. It allows ZBC
> devices with a mix of conventional and "sequential write required"
> zones to be specified.
[...]
> The lower numbered patches in this set contain various measures to
> improve the speed and usefulness of this driver. It is being used to
> test the rewrite of the SCSI generic (sg) driver which is still
> underway.
These really should be separate series. One for the ZBC stuff (which
generally looks OK), one for the backing store enablement, and maybe one
for the general improvements that do not have other dependencies.
It's much more manageable for reviewers when things come in smaller
batches. Once a posted series has been merged, you can rebase your
working tree and submit the next batch of 5-10 patches.
Thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-13 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 6:23 [PATCH v4 00/14] scsi_debug: host managed ZBC + doublestore Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 01/14] scsi_debug: randomize command completion time Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 22:24 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 02/14] scsi_debug: add doublestore option Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 22:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 03/14] scsi_debug: implement verify(10), add verify(16) Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 22:48 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 04/14] scsi_debug: weaken rwlock around ramdisk access Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 05/14] scsi_debug: improve command duration calculation Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 22:50 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 06/14] scsi_debug: implement pre-fetch commands Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 22:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-19 18:01 ` Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-19 18:22 ` Julian Wiedmann
2020-04-19 21:53 ` Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 07/14] scsi_debug: expand zbc support Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 23:00 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-13 23:05 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-04-13 23:06 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-04-14 1:55 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-14 5:38 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 08/14] scsi_debug: add zone commands Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 09/14] scsi_debug: add zbc parameter Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-15 2:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 10/14] scsi_debug: re-arrange parameters alphabetically Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 11/14] scsi_debug: zone_max_open module parameter Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 12/14] scsi_debug: zone_nr_conv " Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 13/14] scsi_debug: zone_size_mb " Douglas Gilbert
2020-02-25 6:23 ` [PATCH v4 14/14] scsi_debug: bump to version 1.89 Douglas Gilbert
2020-04-13 23:19 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2020-04-14 2:49 ` [PATCH v4 00/14] scsi_debug: host managed ZBC + doublestore Douglas Gilbert
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