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 v3 06/10] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 02:21:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200328092149.GA20911@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO2PR04MB23430A87641EDD359E5101FEE7CD0@CO2PR04MB2343.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 09:18:20AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> OK. We can try again to see if we can keep all this WP caching in sd. The only
> pain point is the revalidation as I explained before. Everything else would stay
> pretty much the same and all be scsi specific. I will dig again to see what can
> be done.
Maybe just start with a dumb version that calls into sd where the block
layer currently updates? Once you've got that working I can play a bit
with it and figure out if changes to disk revalidation can clean that up?
I've been wantint to turn revalidate_disk and fiends upside down for
a while as that area is rather grotty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-28 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-27 16:50 [PATCH v3 00/10] Introduce Zone Append for writing to zoned block devices Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] block: provide fallbacks for blk_queue_zone_is_seq and blk_queue_zone_no Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] block: Introduce REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-31 15:23 ` Keith Busch
2020-03-31 15:35 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] block: introduce blk_req_zone_write_trylock Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] block: Introduce zone write pointer offset caching Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] scsi: sd_zbc: factor out sanity checks for zoned commands Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-28 8:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-28 9:02 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-03-28 9:07 ` hch
2020-03-28 9:18 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-03-28 9:21 ` hch [this message]
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] null_blk: Cleanup zoned device initialization Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] null_blk: Support REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-28 8:51 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-03-28 14:17 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] block: export bio_release_pages and bio_iov_iter_get_pages Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-27 17:13 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:22 ` hch
2020-03-27 16:50 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] zonefs: use REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND for sync DIO Johannes Thumshirn
2020-03-27 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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