From: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
To: fio@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>,
Dmitry Fomichev <Dmitry.Fomichev@wdc.com>,
Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>,
Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] HOWTO/man: Describe trim support by zone reset for zoned devices
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 12:28:34 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210805032835.1119908-5-shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210805032835.1119908-1-shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Previous commits added trim support for zoned devices. Update HOWTO and
man page to describe it. Also add missing description about libzbc I/O
engine to HOWTO.
Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
---
HOWTO | 9 +++++++++
fio.1 | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index d4e620de..b5d71475 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -992,6 +992,9 @@ Target file/device
single zone. The :option:`zoneskip` parameter
is ignored. :option:`zonerange` and
:option:`zonesize` must be identical.
+ Trim is handled using a zone reset operation.
+ Trim only considers non-empty sequential write
+ required and sequential write preferred zones.
.. option:: zonerange=int
@@ -1965,6 +1968,12 @@ I/O engine
character devices. This engine supports trim operations.
The sg engine includes engine specific options.
+ **libzbc**
+ Synchronous I/O engine for SMR hard-disks using the libzbc
+ library. The target can be either an sg character device or
+ a block device file. This engine supports the zonemode=zbd zone
+ operations and read/write/trim I/Os.
+
**null**
Doesn't transfer any data, just pretends to. This is mainly used to
exercise fio itself and for debugging/testing purposes.
diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 9c12ad13..c0e83fef 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ starts. The \fBzonecapacity\fR parameter is ignored.
Zoned block device mode. I/O happens sequentially in each zone, even if random
I/O has been selected. Random I/O happens across all zones instead of being
restricted to a single zone.
+Trim is handled using a zone reset operation. Trim only considers non-empty
+sequential write required and sequential write preferred zones.
.RE
.RE
.TP
@@ -1764,7 +1766,7 @@ sg engine includes engine specific options.
Synchronous I/O engine for SMR hard-disks using the \fBlibzbc\fR
library. The target can be either an sg character device or
a block device file. This engine supports the zonemode=zbd zone
-operations.
+operations and read/write/trim I/Os.
.TP
.B null
Doesn't transfer any data, just pretends to. This is mainly used to
--
2.31.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-05 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 3:28 [PATCH v2 0/5] zbd: Support zone reset by trim Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
2021-08-05 3:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] zbd: Add min_bytes argument to zbd_find_zone() Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
2021-08-05 3:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] zbd: Support zone reset by trim Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
2021-08-05 3:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] engines/libzbc: Enable trim for libzbc I/O engine Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
2021-08-05 3:28 ` Shin'ichiro Kawasaki [this message]
2021-08-05 19:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] HOWTO/man: Describe trim support by zone reset for zoned devices Dmitry Fomichev
2021-08-05 3:28 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] t/zbd: Add test #58 to test zone reset by trim workload Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
2021-08-05 19:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] zbd: Support zone reset by trim Dmitry Fomichev
2021-08-06 1:06 ` Shinichiro Kawasaki
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