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From: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"linux-fsdevel @ vger . kernel . org"
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 19:01:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN4PR0401MB359896D94D963DCFF5CC98F39BA70@SN4PR0401MB3598.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 158821297686.28621.178479649242411251.b4-ty@oracle.com

On 30/04/2020 04:18, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:45:54 +0900, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> 
>> The upcoming NVMe ZNS Specification will define a new type of write
>> command for zoned block devices, zone append.
>>
>> When when writing to a zoned block device using zone append, the start
>> sector of the write is pointing at the start LBA of the zone to write to.
>> Upon completion the block device will respond with the position the data
>> has been placed in the zone. This from a high level perspective can be
>> seen like a file system's block allocator, where the user writes to a
>> file and the file-system takes care of the data placement on the device.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Applied to 5.8/scsi-queue, thanks!

Btw any other comments on the SCSI parts of this series or the general 
architecture from your side Martin?

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 10:45 [PATCH v9 00/11] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 10:45 ` [PATCH v9 01/11] scsi: free sgtables in case command setup fails Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-29 12:48   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 10:45 ` [PATCH v9 02/11] block: provide fallbacks for blk_queue_zone_is_seq and blk_queue_zone_no Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-06  2:51   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:45 ` [PATCH v9 03/11] block: rename __bio_add_pc_page to bio_add_hw_page Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-06  2:52   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:45 ` [PATCH v9 04/11] block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-06  2:56   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:45 ` [PATCH v9 05/11] block: introduce blk_req_zone_write_trylock Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-06  2:57   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:46 ` [PATCH v9 06/11] block: Modify revalidate zones Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-06  2:57   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:46 ` [PATCH v9 07/11] scsi: sd_zbc: factor out sanity checks for zoned commands Johannes Thumshirn
2020-05-06  2:58   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:46 ` [PATCH v9 08/11] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 11:42   ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-04-28 12:09     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 14:50       ` Douglas Gilbert
2020-05-06  3:21   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:46 ` [PATCH v9 09/11] null_blk: Support REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 11:43   ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-05-06  3:22   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:46 ` [PATCH v9 10/11] block: export bio_release_pages and bio_iov_iter_get_pages Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-28 11:43   ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-05-06  3:23   ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-04-28 10:46 ` [PATCH v9 11/11] zonefs: use REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND for sync DIO Johannes Thumshirn
2020-04-30  2:18 ` [PATCH v9 00/11] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices Martin K. Petersen
2020-05-05 19:01   ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]

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