Re: [PATCH 0/4] Zone write plugging fixes

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On 12/6/24 10:52, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Jens,
> 
> These patches address potential issues with zone write plugging.
> The first 2 patches fix handling of REQ_NOWAIT BIOs as these can be
> "failed" after going through the zone write plugging and changing the
> target zone plug zone write pointer offset.
> 
> Patch 3 is a bigger fix and address a potential deadlock issue due to
> the zone write plugging internally issuing zone report operations to
> recover from write errors. This zone report operation is removed by this
> patch and replaced with an automatic recovery when the BIO issuer
> execute a zone report. This change in behavior results in a problem with
> REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES handling and failures in the dm-zoned device mapper.
> That is fixed in patch 4.

I forgot to mention that I will followup these fixes with a cleanup of the
report zones API and its callback function interface to clean it up as patch 4
introduces an indirect user callback call that is not very pretty.

> 
> Damien Le Moal (4):
>   block: Use a zone write plug BIO work for REQ_NOWAIT BIOs
>   block: Ignore REQ_NOWAIT for zone reset and zone finish operations
>   block: Prevent potential deadlocks in zone write plug error recovery
>   dm: Fix dm-zoned-reclaim zone write pointer alignment
> 
>  block/blk-zoned.c             | 507 +++++++++++++++-------------------
>  drivers/md/dm-zoned-reclaim.c |   4 +-
>  include/linux/blkdev.h        |   5 +-
>  3 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)
> 


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research




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