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* remove support for the host aware zoned model
@ 2023-12-17 16:53 Christoph Hellwig
  2023-12-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] virtio_blk: cleanup zoned device probing Christoph Hellwig
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2023-12-17 16:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe
  Cc: Paolo Bonzini, Stefan Hajnoczi, Damien Le Moal,
	Martin K. Petersen, dm-devel, linux-kernel, virtualization,
	linux-nvme, linux-scsi, linux-btrfs, linux-f2fs-devel

Hi all,

hen zones were first added the SCSI and ATA specs, two different
models were supported (in addition to the drive managed one that
is invisible to the host):

 - host managed where non-conventional zones there is strict requirement
   to write at the write pointer, or else an error is returned
 - host aware where a write point is maintained if writes always happen
   at it, otherwise it is left in an under-defined state and the
   sequential write preferred zones behave like conventional zones
   (probably very badly performing ones, though)

Not surprisingly this lukewarm model didn't prove to be very useful and
was finally removed from the ZBC and SBC specs (NVMe never implemented
it).  Due to to the easily disappearing write pointer host software
could never rely on the write pointer to actually be useful for say
recovery.

Fortunately only a few HDD prototypes shipped using this model which
never made it to mass production.  Drop the support before it is too
late.  Note that any such host aware prototype HDD can still be used
with Linux as we'll now treat it as a conventional HDD.

Diffstat:
 block/blk-settings.c           |   83 +++++------------------------------------
 block/blk-sysfs.c              |    9 ----
 block/blk-zoned.c              |    3 -
 block/blk.h                    |    2 
 block/partitions/core.c        |   12 -----
 drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c |    2 
 drivers/block/ublk_drv.c       |    2 
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c     |   78 +++++++++++---------------------------
 drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c         |    2 
 drivers/md/dm-table.c          |   45 +++++++++-------------
 drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c |    7 +--
 drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c   |    4 -
 drivers/nvme/host/zns.c        |    2 
 drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c      |   27 ++++++-------
 drivers/scsi/sd.c              |   50 +++++++++++-------------
 drivers/scsi/sd_zbc.c          |   16 -------
 fs/btrfs/zoned.c               |   23 +----------
 fs/btrfs/zoned.h               |    2 
 fs/f2fs/data.c                 |    2 
 fs/f2fs/super.c                |   17 +++-----
 include/linux/blkdev.h         |   38 +-----------------
 21 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 302 deletions(-)

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2023-12-17 16:53 remove support for the host aware zoned model Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] virtio_blk: cleanup zoned device probing Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-18  9:35   ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-18 15:13   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2024-01-16 19:02   ` [f2fs-dev] " patchwork-bot+f2fs
2023-12-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] virtio_blk: remove the broken zone revalidation support Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-18  9:37   ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-18 15:15   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-12-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: remove support for the host aware zone model Christoph Hellwig
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2023-12-18  6:53     ` Damien Le Moal
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2023-12-18  9:33         ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-19  7:16         ` Naohiro Aota
     [not found]           ` <dbc4a5b4296effd88ba0ef939aa324df0969545c.camel@mediatek.com>
2023-12-19  8:12             ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-19 10:38               ` hch
2023-12-19 12:16                 ` hch
2023-12-18  9:48   ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-18 14:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] block: simplify disk_set_zoned Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-18  9:50   ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] sd: only call disk_clear_zoned when needed Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-18  9:51   ` Damien Le Moal
2023-12-19  2:16 ` remove support for the host aware zoned model Martin K. Petersen
2023-12-20  3:18 ` Jens Axboe

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