This series introduces support for ZBC zoned block devices. It integrates earlier submissions by Hannes Reinecke and Shaun Tancheff and includes rewrites and corrections suggested by Christoph Hellwig. For zoned block devices, a zone information cache implemented as an RB-tree is attached to the device request queue and maintained from the SCSI disk driver layer. The cache is used to check read and write commands alignement to zone position and to the write pointer position within zones. The generic block layer API defines functions for obtaining zone information and manipulating zones. Operation on zones are defined as request operations which triger zone cache changes when processed in the sd driver. Most of the ZBC specific code is kept out of sd.c and implemented in the new file sd_zbc.c. Similarly, at the block layer, most of the zoned block device code is implemented in the new blk-zoned.c. For host-managed zoned block devices, the sequential write constraint of write pointer zones is exposed to the user. Users of the disk (applications, file systems or device mappers) must sequentially write to zones. This means that for raw block device accesses from applications, buffered writes are unreliable and direct I/Os must be used (or buffered writes with O_SYNC). At the SCSI layer, write ordering is maintained at dispatch time for both the simple queue model and scsi-mq model using a zone write lock. This lock, implemented as a flag in zone information, prevents issuing multiple writes to a single zone, in effect, resulting in write queue depth of 1 per zone while allowing the drive to be operated at high queue depth overall. Access to zone manipulation operations is also provided to applications through a set of new ioctls. This allows applications operating on raw block devices (e.g. mkfs.xxx) to discover a device zone layout and manipulate zone state. Damien Le Moal (1): block: Add 'zoned' queue limit Hannes Reinecke (6): blk-sysfs: Add 'chunk_sectors' to sysfs attributes block: update chunk_sectors in blk_stack_limits() block: Implement support for zoned block devices block: Add 'BLKPREP_DONE' return value block: Add 'BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_DONE' return value sd: Implement support for ZBC devices Shaun Tancheff (2): block: Define zoned block device operations blk-zoned: Add ioctl interface for zone operations block/Kconfig | 8 + block/Makefile | 1 + block/blk-core.c | 53 +- block/blk-merge.c | 31 +- block/blk-mq.c | 1 + block/blk-settings.c | 5 + block/blk-sysfs.c | 29 ++ block/blk-zoned.c | 453 +++++++++++++++++ block/ioctl.c | 8 + drivers/scsi/Makefile | 1 + drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 4 + drivers/scsi/sd.c | 147 +++++- drivers/scsi/sd.h | 68 +++ drivers/scsi/sd_zbc.c | 1097 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/bio.h | 36 +- include/linux/blk-mq.h | 1 + include/linux/blk_types.h | 27 +- include/linux/blkdev.h | 146 ++++++ include/scsi/scsi_proto.h | 17 + include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 1 + include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h | 91 ++++ include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 1 + 22 files changed, 2170 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) create mode 100644 block/blk-zoned.c create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/sd_zbc.c create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
