Thanks a lot Damien for the summary. Your feedback has made this series much better. > Pankaj patch series is all about supporting ZNS devices that have a zone > size that is not a power of 2 number of LBAs as some vendors want to > produce such drives. There is no such move happening in the SMR world as > all users are happy with the current zone sizes which match the kernel > support (which currently requires power-of-2 number of LBAs for the zone > size). > > I do not think we have yet reached a consensus on if we really want to > accept any zone size for zoned storage. I personally am not a big fan of > removing the existing constraint as that makes the code somewhat heavier > (multiplication & divisions instead of bit shifts) without introducing any > benefit to the user that I can see (or agree with). And there is also a > risk of forcing onto the users to redesign/change their code to support > different devices in the same system. That is never nice to fragment > support like this for the same device class. This is why several people, > including me, requested something like dm-po2zoned, to avoid breaking user > applications if non-power-of-2 zone size drives support is merged. Better > than nothing for sure, but not ideal either. That is only my opinion. > There are different opinions out there. I appreciate that you have explained the different perspectives. We have covered this written and orally, and it seems to me that we have a good coverage of the arguments in the list. At this point, I would like to ask the opinion of Jens, Christoph and Keith. Do you think we are missing anything in the series? Can this be queued up for 6.1 (after I send the next version with a minor fix suggested by Mike)? -- Regards, Pankaj
