[PATCH v12 12/13] dm: introduce DM_EMULATED_ZONES target type

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Thu Sep 1 17:28:59 PDT 2022


On Tue, Aug 23 2022 at  8:18P -0400,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav at samsung.com> wrote:

> Introduce a new target type DM_EMULATED_ZONES for targets with
> a different number of sectors per zone (aka zone size) than the underlying
> device zone size.
> 
> This target type is introduced as the existing zoned targets assume
> that the target and the underlying device have the same zone size.
> The new target: dm-po2zone will use this new target
> type as it emulates the zone boundary that is different from the
> underlying zoned device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav at samsung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal at opensource.wdc.com>

This patch's use of "target type" jargon isn't valid. 

Please say "target feature flag" and rename DM_EMULATED_ZONES to
DM_TARGET_EMULATED_ZONES in the subject and header.

But, with those fixed:

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at kernel.org>

(fyi, I'll review patch 13, the dm-po2zone target, tomorrow)




More information about the Linux-nvme mailing list