Bart,
On 12/6/22 10:43, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 12/5/22 08:20, Alvaro Karsz wrote:
>> +/* Get lifetime information struct for each request */
>> +struct virtio_blk_lifetime {
>> + /*
>> + * specifies the percentage of reserved blocks that are consumed.
>> + * optional values following virtio spec:
>> + * 0 - undefined
>> + * 1 - normal, < 80% of reserved blocks are consumed
>> + * 2 - warning, 80% of reserved blocks are consumed
>> + * 3 - urgent, 90% of reserved blocks are consumed
>> + */
>> + __le16 pre_eol_info;
>> + /*
>> + * this field refers to wear of SLC cells and is provided in
>> increments of 10used,
>> + * and so on, thru to 11 meaning estimated lifetime exceeded. All
>> values above 11
>> + * are reserved
>> + */
>> + __le16 device_lifetime_est_typ_a;
>> + /*
>> + * this field refers to wear of MLC cells and is provided with
>> the same semantics as
>> + * device_lifetime_est_typ_a
>> + */
>> + __le16 device_lifetime_est_typ_b;
>> +};
>
> Why does the above data structure only refer to SLC and MLC but not to
> TLC or QLC?
>
> How will this data structure be extended without having to introduce a
> new ioctl?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>
We already discussed that see :-
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2022-November/063742.html
-ck
