On 9/30/22 1:38 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 9/30/22 08:13, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 9/29/22 12:31 AM, Pankaj Raghav wrote: >>>> Hi Jens, >>>> ?? Please consider this patch series for the 6.1 release. >>>> >>> >>> Hi Jens, Christoph, and Keith, >>> ? All the patches have a Reviewed-by tag at this point. Can we queue this up >>> for 6.1? >> >> It's getting pretty late for 6.1 and I'd really like to have both Christoph >> and Martin sign off on these changes. > > Hi Jens, > > Agreed that it's getting late for 6.1. > > Since this has not been mentioned in the cover letter, I want to add > that in the near future we will need these patches for Android > devices. JEDEC is working on supporting zoned storage for UFS devices, > the storage devices used in all modern Android phones. Although it > would be possible to make the offset between zone starts a power of > two by inserting gap zones between data zones, UFS vendors asked not > to do this and hence need support for zone sizes that are not a power > of two. An advantage of not having to deal with gap zones is better > filesystem performance since filesystem extents cannot span gap zones. > Having to split filesystem extents because of gap zones reduces > filesystem performance. Noted. I'll find some time to review this as well separately, once we're on the other side of the merge window. -- Jens Axboe
