Sent by mistake. please ignore. > On Apr 7, 2020, at 4:50 PM, Michael Green <mishagreen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> 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 >> >
