Add the description of the zoned, nr_zones and chunk_sectors sysfs queue
attributes to Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt. The description of
the zoned and chunk_sector attributes are mostly copied from
ABI/testing/sysfs-block. While at it, also fix a typo in the description
of the io_poll_delay attribute.
nr_zones description is also added to ABI/testing/sysfs-block and
contyact email address updated for the zoned attribute.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 10 ++++++++-
Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
index dea212db9df3..3789b32759dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Description:
What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/zoned
Date: September 2016
-Contact: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxx>
+Contact: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>
Description:
zoned indicates if the device is a zoned block device
and the zone model of the device if it is indeed zoned.
@@ -259,6 +259,14 @@ Description:
zone commands, they will be treated as regular block
devices and zoned will report "none".
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nr_zones
+Date: November 2018
+Contact: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>
+Description:
+ nr_zones indicates the total number of zones of a zoned block
+ device ("host-aware" or "host-managed" zone model). For regular
+ block devices, the value is always 0.
+
What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/chunk_sectors
Date: September 2016
Contact: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
index 2c1e67058fd3..a23952567008 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ guess, the kernel will put the process issuing IO to sleep for an amount
of time, before entering a classic poll loop. This mode might be a
little slower than pure classic polling, but it will be more efficient.
If set to a value larger than 0, the kernel will put the process issuing
-IO to sleep for this amont of microseconds before entering classic
+IO to sleep for this amount of microseconds before entering classic
polling.
iostats (RW)
@@ -194,4 +194,31 @@ blk-throttle makes decision based on the samplings. Lower time means cgroups
have more smooth throughput, but higher CPU overhead. This exists only when
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is enabled.
+zoned (RO)
+----------
+This indicates if the device is a zoned block device and the zone model of the
+device if it is indeed zoned. The possible values indicated by zoned are
+"none" for regular block devices and "host-aware" or "host-managed" for zoned
+block devices. The characteristics of host-aware and host-managed zoned block
+devices are described in the ZBC (Zoned Block Commands) and ZAC
+(Zoned Device ATA Command Set) standards. These standards also define the
+"drive-managed" zone model. However, since drive-managed zoned block devices
+do not support zone commands, they will be treated as regular block devices
+and zoned will report "none".
+
+nr_zones (RO)
+-------------
+For zoned block devices (zoned attribute indicating "host-managed" or
+"host-aware"), this indicates the total number of zones of the device.
+This is always 0 for regular block devices.
+
+chunk_sectors (RO)
+------------------
+This has different meaning depending on the type of the block device.
+For a RAID device (dm-raid), chunk_sectors indicates the size in 512B sectors
+of the RAID volume stripe segment. For a zoned block device, either host-aware
+or host-managed, chunk_sectors indicates the size of 512B sectors of the zones
+of the device, with the eventual exception of the last zone of the device which
+may be smaller.
+
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>, February 2009
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