> On Apr 7, 2020, at 4:48 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 >
