[PATCH 0/6] power_of_2 emulation support for NVMe ZNS devices

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On 15/03/2022 19:51, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
>> ck-groups (and thus block-groups not aligned to the stripe size).
>>
> I agree with your point that we risk not aligning to stripe size when we
> move to npo2 zone size which I believe the minimum is 64K (please
> correct me if I am wrong). As David Sterba mentioned in his email, we
> could agree on some reasonable alignment, which I believe would be the
> minimum stripe size of 64k to avoid added complexity to the existing
> btrfs zoned support. And it is a much milder constraint that most
> devices can naturally adhere compared to the po2 zone size requirement.
> 

What could be done is rounding a zone down to the next po2 (64k aligned),
but then we need to explicitly finish the zones.