[PATCH v3 1/3] block: introduce zone_write_granularity limit

Damien Le Moal Damien.LeMoal at wdc.com
Mon Jan 25 00:32:05 EST 2021


On 2021/01/24 19:07, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:56:58AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> This looks a little strange.  If we special case zoned vs not zoned
>>> here anyway, why not set the zone_write_granularity to the logical
>>> block size here by default.
>>
>> The convention is zone_write_granularity == 0 for the BLK_ZONED_NONE case. Hence
>> the reset here if we force the zoned model to none for HA drives. This way, this
>> does not create a special case for HA drives used as regular disks.
> 
> Just inititialize it for all cases if you initialize it for some here.
> That way everyone but sd already gets a right default and life becomes
> simpler.

True for nullblk, and that also simplifies sd a little. But not for nvme,
blk_queue_set_zoned() is not used AND nvme_update_zone_info() is called before
nvme_update_disk_info() where the NS logical block size is set. So some
surgery/cleanups would be needed to benefit. I could add a cleanup for this, but
not entirely sure if calling nvme_update_zone_info() after
nvme_update_disk_info() is OK. Thoughts ?


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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