On 4/9/20 2:45 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi all, > > this patchset adds a new metadata version 2, which brings the following > improvements: > - UUIDs and labels: Adding three more fields to the metadata containing > the dm-zoned device UUID and label, and the device UUID. This allows > for an unique identification of the devices, so that several dm-zoned > sets can coexist and have a persistent identification. > - Extend random zones by an additional regular disk device: A regular > block device can be added together with the zoned block device, providing > additional (emulated) random write zones. With this it's possible to > handle sequential zones only devices; also there will be a speed-up if > the regular block device resides on a fast medium. The regular block device > is placed logically in front of the zoned block device, so that metadata > and mapping tables reside on the regular block device, not the zoned device. > - Tertiary superblock support: In addition to the two existing sets of metadata > another, tertiary, superblock is written to the first block of the zoned > block device. This superblock is for identification only; the generation > number is set to '0' and the block itself it never updated. The additional > metadate like bitmap tables etc are not copied. > > To handle this, some changes to the original handling are introduced: > - Zones are now equidistant. Originally, runt zones were ignored, and > not counted when sizing the mapping tables. With the dual device setup > runt zones might occur at the end of the regular block device, making > direct translation between zone number and sector/block number complex. > For metadata version 2 all zones are considered to be of the same size, > and runt zones are simply marked as 'offline' to have them ignored when > allocating a new zone. > - The block number in the superblock is now the global number, and refers to > the location of the superblock relative to the resulting device-mapper > device. Which means that the tertiary superblock contains absolute block > addresses, which needs to be translated to the relative device addresses > to find the referenced block. > > There is an accompanying patchset for dm-zoned-tools for writing and checking > this new metadata. > > As usual, comments and reviews are welcome. > > Changes to v2: > - Kill dmz_id() > - Include reviews from Damien > - Sanitize uuid handling as suggested by John Dorminy > This series looks good to me, feel free to add my Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> By the way, have you completed the patches for regular device support? I was considering rebase my previous patches to this series but not sure is it still necessary. Regards, Bob > Hannes Reinecke (11): > dm-zoned: store zone id within the zone structure and kill dmz_id() > dm-zoned: use array for superblock zones > dm-zoned: store device in struct dmz_sb > dm-zoned: move fields from struct dmz_dev to dmz_metadata > dm-zoned: introduce dmz_metadata_label() to format device name > dm-zoned: remove 'dev' argument from reclaim > dm-zoned: replace 'target' pointer in the bio context > dm-zoned: use dmz_zone_to_dev() when handling metadata I/O > dm-zoned: add metadata logging functions > dm-zoned: ignore metadata zone in dmz_alloc_zone() > dm-zoned: metadata version 2 > > drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c | 601 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > drivers/md/dm-zoned-reclaim.c | 89 ++--- > drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c | 273 ++++++++------- > drivers/md/dm-zoned.h | 29 +- > 4 files changed, 659 insertions(+), 333 deletions(-) > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
