[dm-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Block support for zoned drives
Hannes Reinecke
hare at suse.de
Mon Apr 4 07:32:07 UTC 2016
On 04/04/2016 07:06 AM, Shaun Tancheff wrote:
> As Host Aware drives are becoming available we would like to be able
> to make use of such drives. This series is also intended to be suitable
> for use by Host Managed drives.
>
> The following series is hopefully a reasonable start at adding such
> support.
>
> ZAC/ZBC drives add new commands. Some of this support is already in
> progress by Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>. This patch finishes up a
> couple of scsi <-> ata translations. These patches will be re-worked
> or dropped in favor of Hannes' next release.
>
> With the ZAC support in place adding some additional flags to struct bio
> to identify the new drive requests (Report zones, Open/Close/Reset zones).
>
> With the bio support in place there are two new users added. The first
> user is an ioctl the second user is a device mapper target.
> The user space tools for the ioctl is intended to be acceptable for
> inclusion by util-linux. Initial patches for 2.20.1 and 2.21.1
> can be found here:
> https://github.com/Seagate/ZDM-Device-Mapper/tree/master/patches/util-linux
>
> Please consider the new device mapper target, as an RFC.
>
> Patch "Limit bio_endio recursion" is based on an older patch that was
> not picked up. It is not strictly necessary but it does reduce stack
> usage, especially for badly behaved DM targets that return
> DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE too frequently.
>
> Patch "Use PID to seed Stream Id" depends on:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457107853-8689-1-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com
>
> Patch "Block Zoned Control for Userspace" is a hold over for user space
> tools that have not been updated to use the new block ioctl. The patch
> will be dropped when zdm-tools is updated and sd-tools is replaced
> with util-linux.
>
> This series is based on Linus v4.5 kernel.
>
> Code is also available on github here:
> https://github.com/Seagate/ZDM-Device-Mapper
>
> And a fork of Linus kernel with ZDM branches is available here:
> https://github.com/stancheff/linux
>
> Shaun Tancheff (12):
> Add ZBC <-> ZAC xlat support for report, open, close, reset, finish
> ata-scsi: Translate ReportZones result to big endian
> BUG: Losing bits on request.cmd_flags
> Add bio/request flags for using ZBC/ZAC commands
> Add ioctl to issue ZBC/ZAC commands via block layer
> Add ata pass-through path for ZAC commands.
> ZDM: New DM target 'zoned'
> RAID 4/5/6: Indicate parity blocks as 'META'
> RAID 4/5/6: Fine-grained TRIM enable for ZDM
> Limit bio_endio recursion
> Stream Id: Use PID to seed Stream Id construction.
> Block Zoned Control for Userspace
>
Please hold off with this series for the moment.
I've just finished up porting my ZAC/ZBC patchset and will be posting an
update shortly.
I'm happy to integrate any of your fixes.
Cheers,
Hannes
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