[PATCH v8 00/11] support non power of 2 zoned device

Bart Van Assche bvanassche at acm.org
Thu Jul 28 06:30:16 PDT 2022


On 7/28/22 04:57, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> On 2022-07-28 01:19, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On 7/27/22 09:22, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
>>> This series adds support to npo2 zoned devices in the block and nvme
>>> layer and a new **dm target** is added: dm-po2z-target. This new
>>> target will be initially used for filesystems such as btrfs and
>>> f2fs that does not have native npo2 zone support.
>>
>> Should any SCSI changes be included in this patch series? From sd_zbc.c:
>>
>>      if (!is_power_of_2(zone_blocks)) {
>>          sd_printk(KERN_ERR, sdkp,
>>                "Zone size %llu is not a power of two.\n",
>>                zone_blocks);
>>          return -EINVAL;
>>      }
>>
> I would keep these changes out of the current patch series because it
> will also increase the test scope. I think once the block layer
> constraint is removed as a part of this series, we can work on the SCSI
> changes in the next cycle.

That's fine with me.

Thanks,

Bart.



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