On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:45:54 +0900, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> The upcoming NVMe ZNS Specification will define a new type of write
> command for zoned block devices, zone append.
>
> When when writing to a zoned block device using zone append, the start
> sector of the write is pointing at the start LBA of the zone to write to.
> Upon completion the block device will respond with the position the data
> has been placed in the zone. This from a high level perspective can be
> seen like a file system's block allocator, where the user writes to a
> file and the file-system takes care of the data placement on the device.
>
> [...]
Applied to 5.8/scsi-queue, thanks!
[01/11] scsi: core: free sgtables in case command setup fails
https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/20a66f2bf280
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
