[PATCHv10 0/9] write hints with nvme fdp, scsi streams

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 01:36:35PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> The zone block support all looks pretty neat, but I think you're making
> this harder than necessary to support streams. You don't need to treat
> these like a sequential write device. The controller side does its own
> garbage collection, so no need to duplicate the effort on the host. And
> it looks like the host side gc potentially merges multiple streams into
> a single gc stream, so that's probably not desirable.

We're not really duplicating much.  Writing sequential is pretty easy,
and tracking reclaim units separately means you need another tracking
data structure, and either that or the LBA one is always going to be
badly fragmented if they aren't the same.