From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6588CC433F5 for ; Tue, 17 May 2022 15:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1349361AbiEQPhT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2022 11:37:19 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38566 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1350364AbiEQPfy (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2022 11:35:54 -0400 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26F67506D9; Tue, 17 May 2022 08:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwcc.thunk.org (pool-108-7-220-252.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [108.7.220.252]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 24HFYsQ9026768 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 17 May 2022 11:34:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mit.edu; s=outgoing; t=1652801701; bh=vMDcL1Sj3ecZF/PHO33RMl8MajLs+NitzTG2owdTZQA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=QWWYv+c38E0Js5EJ5O4LH7stm0/N/0G+zlZGaxwbAbrJcoBFiFX+I8aMjlxDXtdcH HpQFgO3vNojUXJc8f+tn6qApIq1oq89uILHK6aqbgkyPptilbkipvXh8b+UDCORwcJ NTcZRZaecteMkr4C9FEtPqcOV8/1Z/mJK25oUPZYeYBBp6sBYjgpZEf9xgcokZgDBW jWBIxHO+AVv5V5gBQlM1SENquz5Y+sM7mT5fnlB7PvD9DdOkb+WioPJCoeulEVoACn ngUKDte0snQOFU95pMNMLZkRMx8s9GtBCC6kwv6i26eYPhX3g2IKwzeEwICOgNvimy LqJbC9V4JwF5A== Received: by cwcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id 8636C15C3EC0; Tue, 17 May 2022 11:34:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 11:34:54 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Pankaj Raghav , axboe@kernel.dk, pankydev8@gmail.com, gost.dev@samsung.com, damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com, jiangbo.365@bytedance.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, dsterba@suse.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] support non power of 2 zoned devices Message-ID: References: <20220516165416.171196-1-p.raghav@samsung.com> <20220517081048.GA13947@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220517081048.GA13947@lst.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:10:48AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I'm a little surprised about all this activity. > > I though the conclusion at LSF/MM was that for Linux itself there > is very little benefit in supporting this scheme. It will massively > fragment the supported based of devices and applications, while only > having the benefit of supporting some Samsung legacy devices. FWIW, That wasn't my impression from that LSF/MM session, but once the videos become available, folks can decide for themselves. - Ted