On 4/6/20 6:58 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote: > This series extend support for zonemode=zbd beyond Linux only and as is > allows the use of this zonemode on any platform with regular block > devices. The same also applies to Linux systems that do not have zoned > block device support (e.g. enterprise distributions with kernels version > lower than 4.10). For zoned block device support, Linux implementation > is preserved. Other OS specific code can be added with automatic > configuration with the configure script to add zoned block device > support. > > Additionally, ioengine operations are updated to allow an IO engine to > provide implementations for the zone operations needed to support zoned > block devices. This is convenient for cases where the system OS/kernel > does not have any support implementation available. > > Finally, the libzbc IO engine is introduced to support zoned block > devices on Linux distributions without native kernel level support (E.g. > RedHat/CentOS). SImilarly to the sg ioengine, this new IO engine usesi > passthrough commands implemeted by libzbc API to directly access SMR > drives. Looks ok to me, I've applied it. But please send a job file that uses it as well to put in examples/, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
