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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 09:45:10 +0900
From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@...nsource.wdc.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>, hch@....de,
Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Cc: jaegeuk@...nel.org, agk@...hat.com, gost.dev@...sung.com,
snitzer@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hare@...e.de,
matias.bjorling@....com, Johannes.Thumshirn@....com,
linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
pankydev8@...il.com, dm-devel@...hat.com,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 00/13] support zoned block devices with non-power-of-2
zone sizes
On 10/1/22 04:38, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 9/30/22 08:13, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 9/29/22 12:31 AM, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
>>>> Hi Jens,
>>>> Please consider this patch series for the 6.1 release.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jens, Christoph, and Keith,
>>> All the patches have a Reviewed-by tag at this point. Can we queue this up
>>> for 6.1?
>>
>> It's getting pretty late for 6.1 and I'd really like to have both Christoph
>> and Martin sign off on these changes.
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> Agreed that it's getting late for 6.1.
>
> Since this has not been mentioned in the cover letter, I want to add
> that in the near future we will need these patches for Android devices.
> JEDEC is working on supporting zoned storage for UFS devices, the
> storage devices used in all modern Android phones. Although it would be
> possible to make the offset between zone starts a power of two by
> inserting gap zones between data zones, UFS vendors asked not to do this
> and hence need support for zone sizes that are not a power of two. An
> advantage of not having to deal with gap zones is better filesystem
> performance since filesystem extents cannot span gap zones. Having to
> split filesystem extents because of gap zones reduces filesystem
> performance.
As mentioned many times, my opinion is that a good implementation should
*not* have any extent span zone boundaries. So personally, I do not
consider such argument as a valid justification for the non-power-of-2
zone size support.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>
>
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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research
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