[PATCH v16 04/11] block: introduce a write_stream_granularity queue limit

Kanchan Joshi joshi.k at samsung.com
Tue May 6 05:17:25 PDT 2025


From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Export the granularity that write streams should be discarded with,
as it is essential for making good use of them.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k at samsung.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block | 8 ++++++++
 block/blk-sysfs.c                    | 3 +++
 include/linux/blkdev.h               | 1 +
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
index 8bbe1eca28df..4ba771b56b3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
@@ -555,6 +555,14 @@ Description:
 		supported. If supported, valid values are 1 through
 		max_write_streams, inclusive.
 
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_stream_granularity
+Date:		November 2024
+Contact:	linux-block at vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		[RO] Granularity of a write stream in bytes.  The granularity
+		of a write stream is the size that should be discarded or
+		overwritten together to avoid write amplification in the device.
+
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_segments
 Date:		March 2010
 Contact:	linux-block at vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 986cdba4f550..ed00dedfb9ce 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(max_discard_segments)
 QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(max_integrity_segments)
 QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(max_segment_size)
 QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(max_write_streams)
+QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(write_stream_granularity)
 QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(logical_block_size)
 QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(physical_block_size)
 QUEUE_SYSFS_LIMIT_SHOW(chunk_sectors)
@@ -490,6 +491,7 @@ QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_segments, "max_segments");
 QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_integrity_segments, "max_integrity_segments");
 QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_segment_size, "max_segment_size");
 QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY(queue_max_write_streams, "max_write_streams");
+QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY(queue_write_stream_granularity, "write_stream_granularity");
 QUEUE_RW_ENTRY(elv_iosched, "scheduler");
 
 QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY(queue_logical_block_size, "logical_block_size");
@@ -645,6 +647,7 @@ static struct attribute *queue_attrs[] = {
 	&queue_max_integrity_segments_entry.attr,
 	&queue_max_segment_size_entry.attr,
 	&queue_max_write_streams_entry.attr,
+	&queue_write_stream_granularity_entry.attr,
 	&queue_hw_sector_size_entry.attr,
 	&queue_logical_block_size_entry.attr,
 	&queue_physical_block_size_entry.attr,
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 3747fbbd65fa..886009b6c3e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ struct queue_limits {
 	unsigned short		max_discard_segments;
 
 	unsigned short		max_write_streams;
+	unsigned int		write_stream_granularity;
 
 	unsigned int		max_open_zones;
 	unsigned int		max_active_zones;
-- 
2.25.1




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