Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] ublk: add zoned storage support

From: aravind . ramesh
Date: Fri Jun 30 2023 - 06:34:04 EST


On 29/06/23, 12:37 AM, "Andreas Hindborg" <nmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:nmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:


From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxxx>>


Hi All,


This patch set adds zoned storage support to `ublk`. The first two patches does
some house cleaning in preparation for the last two patches. The third patch
adds support for report_zones and the following operations:


Just to clarify, we do need you ublk user space patches
to create a ublk device node (with these patches in kernel), right ?


- REQ_OP_ZONE_OPEN
- REQ_OP_ZONE_CLOSE
- REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH
- REQ_OP_ZONE_RES

REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET



The last patch adds support for REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND.


v3 [2] -> v4 changes:
- Split up v3 patches
- Add zone append support
- Change order of variables in `ublk_report_zones`


Read/write and zone operations are tested with zenfs [3].


The zone append path is tested with fio -> zonefs -> ublk -> null_blk.


The implementation of zone append requires ublk user copy feature, and therefore
the series is based on branch for-next (6afa337a3789) of [4].


[1]
https://github.com/metaspace/ubdsrv/commit/7de0d901c329fde7dc5a2e998952dd88bf5e668b
<https://github.com/metaspace/ubdsrv/commit/7de0d901c329fde7dc5a2e998952dd88bf5e668b>
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230316145539.300523-1-nmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:20230316145539.300523-1-nmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>/
[3] https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/zenfs
<https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/zenfs>
[4] https://git.kernel.dk/linux.git <https://git.kernel.dk/linux.git>


Andreas Hindborg (4):
ublk: change ublk IO command defines to enum
ublk: move types to shared header file
ublk: enable zoned storage support
ublk: add zone append


MAINTAINERS | 2 +
drivers/block/Kconfig | 4 +
drivers/block/Makefile | 4 +-
drivers/block/ublk_drv-zoned.c | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/block/ublk_drv.h | 71 +++++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h | 38 ++++++--
7 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/block/ublk_drv-zoned.c
create mode 100644 drivers/block/ublk_drv.h




base-commit: 3261ea42710e9665c9151006049411bd23b5411f

Regards,
Aravind