On 07/18/2014 07:04 PM, John Utz wrote:
On 07/18/2014 05:31 AM, John Utz wrote:
Thankyou very much for the exhaustive answer! I forwarded on to my
project peers because i don't think any of us where aware of the
existing infrastructure.
Of course, said infrastructure would have to be taught about ZAC,
but it seems like it would be a nice place to start testing from....
ZAC is a different beast altogether; I've posted an initial set of
patches a while back on linux-scsi.
But I don't think multipath needs to be changed for that.
Other areas of device-mapper most certainly do.
Pretty sure John is working on a new ZAC-oriented DM target.
YUP.
Per Ted T'so's suggestion several months ago, the goal is to create
> a new DM target that implements the ZAC/ZBC command set and the SMR
> write pointer architecture so that FSfolksen can try their hand at
> porting their stuff to it.
It's in the very early stages so there is nothing to show yet, but
> development is ongoing. There are a few unknowns about how to surface
> some specific behaviors (new verbs and errors, particularly errors
> with sense codes that return a write pointer) but i have not gotten
> far enuf along in development to be able to construct succint and
> specific questions on the topic so that will have to wait for a bit.
I was pondering the 'best' ZAC implementation, too, and found the
'report zones' command _very_ cumbersome to use.
Especially the fact that in theory each zone could have a different
size _and_ plenty of zones could be present will be making zone
lookup hellish.
However: it seems to me that we might benefit from a generic
'block boundaries' implementation.
Reasoning here is that several subsystems (RAID, ZAC/ZBC, and things
like referrals) impose I/O scheduling boundaries which must not be
crossed when assembling requests.
Seeing that we already have some block limitations I was wondering
if we couldn't have some set of 'I/O scheduling boundaries' as part
of the request_queue structure.
Kent, Jens; comments here?
Cheers,
Hannes
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