On 8/29/19 1:21 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote: > The first 5 patches of this series are small cleanups and fixes to the > zone block device code (zbd.c) and man page documentation. > > The last patch of this series implements zoneskip option support for > zonemode=zbd in response to field customers request wanting to > test/qualify very large capacity SMR disks without having to do > full-pack read/write of the entire disk capacity, while retaining the > convenience of the auomatic handling of zone write pointer alignment and > zone reset of this mode (as opposed to the zonemode=strided mode). > > The zoneskip option support for zonemode=zbd applies only to sequential > read/write workloads, allowing to skip zoneskip bytes once the current > zone of a job has been fully written or read. The zoneskip value must be > zone aligned. Applied, thanks Damien. -- Jens Axboe
