1. Added a new FIO option zone_open. When it is enabled, Zones will be opened explicitly before sending I/Os. 2. Add support for open_zones in libzbc I/O engine 3. t/zbd: Add support to verify Zone Explicit Open This is a RFC. Feedback / Comments will help in improving this further. Ankit Kumar (2): Add support for Explicit open zones Add support for open_zones in libzbc I/O engine. Krishna Kanth Reddy (1): t/zbd: Add support to verify Zone Explicit Open HOWTO | 13 ++++++++ engines/libzbc.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ engines/skeleton_external.c | 12 ++++++++ fio.1 | 11 +++++++ ioengines.h | 2 ++ options.c | 20 ++++++++++++ oslib/blkzoned.h | 7 +++++ oslib/linux-blkzoned.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++ t/zbd/test-zbd-support | 27 ++++++++++++++++ thread_options.h | 7 +++++ zbd.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 228 insertions(+) -- 2.17.1