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Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v8 4/5] doc: document sysfs queue/independent_access_ranges attributes Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 11:35:44 +0900 Message-Id: <20210909023545.1101672-5-damien.lemoal@wdc.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210909023545.1101672-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com> References: <20210909023545.1101672-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Update the file Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst to add a description of a device queue sysfs entries related to independent access ranges (e.g. concurrent positioning ranges for multi-actuator hard-disks). Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke --- Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst index 4dc7f0d499a8..b6e8983d8eda 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst @@ -286,4 +286,35 @@ sequential zones of zoned block devices (devices with a zoned attributed that reports "host-managed" or "host-aware"). This value is always 0 for regular block devices. +independent_access_ranges (RO) +------------------------------ + +The presence of this sub-directory of the /sys/block/xxx/queue/ directory +indicates that the device is capable of executing requests targeting +different sector ranges in parallel. For instance, single LUN multi-actuator +hard-disks will have an independent_access_ranges directory if the device +correctly advertizes the sector ranges of its actuators. + +The independent_access_ranges directory contains one directory per access +range, with each range described using the sector (RO) attribute file to +indicate the first sector of the range and the nr_sectors (RO) attribute file +to indicate the total number of sectors in the range starting from the first +sector of the range. For example, a dual-actuator hard-disk will have the +following independent_access_ranges entries.:: + + $ tree /sys/block//queue/independent_access_ranges/ + /sys/block//queue/independent_access_ranges/ + |-- 0 + | |-- nr_sectors + | `-- sector + `-- 1 + |-- nr_sectors + `-- sector + +The sector and nr_sectors attributes use 512B sector unit, regardless of +the actual block size of the device. Independent access ranges do not +overlap and include all sectors within the device capacity. The access +ranges are numbered in increasing order of the range start sector, +that is, the sector attribute of range 0 always has the value 0. + Jens Axboe , February 2009 -- 2.31.1