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Message-ID: <296d2d14-0bf6-e0a2-84dc-7d6e819625c1@lightnvm.io>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:54:57 +0200
From: Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To: loberman@...hat.com, axboe@...com
Cc: linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Bart.VanAssche@....com, Damien.LeMoal@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] null_blk: zone support
On 07/06/2018 07:45 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 19:38 +0200, Matias Bjørling wrote:
>> This series adds support for exposing a zone block device using the
>> null_blk device driver.
>>
>> The first patch moves core null_blk data structures to a shared
>> header
>> file. The second implements the actual zone support. The patchset
>> adds
>> two new options. One to enable the zone interface, and another to
>> define the size of the zones to expose.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matias
>>
>> Matias Bjørling (2):
>> null_blk: move shared definitions to header file
>> null_blk: add zone support
>>
>> Documentation/block/null_blk.txt | 7 ++
>> drivers/block/Makefile | 5 +-
>> drivers/block/null_blk.c | 124 ++++++++++++-----------------
>> ---
>> drivers/block/null_blk.h | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c | 149
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 5 files changed, 315 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/block/null_blk.h
>> create mode 100644 drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
>>
>
> Thank you for this will be very useful.
> I will test it to add value.
> I dont know the code well enough to review it
> Regards
> Laurence
>
Great.
For fio, you can use the zone support here:
https://github.com/bvanassche/fio
It is in the process of being upstreamed.
Also, you'll need the latest libzbc/util-linux (blkzone) if you want to
report zones. A bug was fixed around detection of the drive.
https://github.com/hgst/libzbc
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux
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