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From: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
To: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
Cc: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel @ vger . kernel . org"
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/10] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 08:58:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200408155846.GC29029@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CH2PR04MB6902DCA5A70BBC48B66951E3E7C00@CH2PR04MB6902.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:14:21AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> 
> As we discussed before, if the user is not well behaving and issuing writes and
> zone reset/finish simultaneously for the same zone, errors will likely happen
> with or without the zone write locking being used on the reset/finish side. So I
> think we can safely remove the zone locking for reset and finish of a single
> zone. If an error happens, the error recovery report zone will update the wp
> offset. All we need is the spinlock for the wp_ofst update. So we can clean this
> up further and have this locking difference you point out going away.

Thanks, that's what I remembered from last time around and why I was
a little surprised we still had this code.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 10:12 [PATCH v4 00/10] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] block: provide fallbacks for blk_queue_zone_is_seq and blk_queue_zone_no Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-07 16:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08 11:31     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-08 15:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08 15:53     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] block: introduce blk_req_zone_write_trylock Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-07 16:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-07 16:54     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08  8:29     ` [PATCH v4 04/10] block: Modify revalidate zones Damien Le Moal
2020-04-08 15:58       ` hch
2020-04-03 10:12 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] scsi: sd_zbc: factor out sanity checks for zoned commands Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] scsi: export scsi_mq_uninit_cmnd Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-07 17:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08 11:32     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-08 15:59       ` hch
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-07 17:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08  8:14     ` Damien Le Moal
2020-04-08 15:58       ` hch [this message]
2020-04-08 16:13         ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] null_blk: Support REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-07 17:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] block: export bio_release_pages and bio_iov_iter_get_pages Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-03 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] zonefs: use REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND for sync DIO Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-07 16:49 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08  8:28   ` Johannes Thumshirn

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