Re: [PATCH] dm-crypt: set max_io_len as chunk_sectors of zoned device

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On 11/25/24 2:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 11:22:51AM +0800, LongPing Wei wrote:
>> When dm level submit a bio with bi_size > max_sectors_kb of lower device,
>> blk_mq_submit_bio will split it into several ones with limited bi_size.
>> It may be a potential unordered issue as it breaks the ZWL design in dm
>> on 6.6.
> 
> What is ZWL?  And why mention 6.6?  And why do you care about ordering?
> There is no real ordering requirement in the block layer.
> 

ZWL == zone write locking. That is, the mq-deadline request-based write request
ordering control we had before zone write plugging.
This is about ordering of write requests resulting from a split BIO.

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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