[PATCH v4 6/8] zonefs: use zone write granularity as block size

Chaitanya Kulkarni Chaitanya.Kulkarni at wdc.com
Thu Jan 28 00:17:24 EST 2021


On 1/27/21 20:47, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Zoned block devices have different granularity constraints for write
> operations into sequential zones. E.g. ZBC and ZAC devices require that
> writes be aligned to the device physical block size while NVMe ZNS
> devices allow logical block size aligned write operations. To correctly
> handle such difference, use the device zone write granularity limit to
> set the block size of a zonefs volume, thus allowing the smallest
> possible write unit for all zoned device types.
>
> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal at wdc.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni at wdc.com>




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