[PATCH v7 00/28] Zone write plugging

Damien Le Moal dlemoal at kernel.org
Thu Apr 11 17:19:25 PDT 2024


On 4/8/24 10:41, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> The patch series introduces zone write plugging (ZWP) as the new
> mechanism to control the ordering of writes to zoned block devices.
> ZWP replaces zone write locking (ZWL) which is implemented only by
> mq-deadline today. ZWP also allows emulating zone append operations
> using regular writes for zoned devices that do not natively support this
> operation (e.g. SMR HDDs). This patch series removes the scsi disk
> driver and device mapper zone append emulation to use ZWP emulation.

Jens,

If you are OK with this series, can we get it queued please ?
I have a couple more patches I would like to send on top of this and the longer
it soaks in linux-next the better I think.

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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