Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: Split and submit bios in LBA order

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On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 10:45:08AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > Although the above sounds interesting to me, I think the following two 
> > scenarios are not handled by the above approach and can lead to reordering:
> > * The SCSI device reporting a unit attention.
> > * The SCSI device responding with the SCSI status "BUSY". The UFS 
> > standard explicitly allows this. From the UFS standard: "If the unit is 
> > not ready to accept a new command (e.g., still processing previous 
> > command) a STATUS response of BUSY will be returned."
> 
> Yes, that likely would be an issue for regular writes, but likely not for zone
> append emulation using regular writes though, since a "busy" return for a ZA
> emulated regular write can be resent later with a different aligned write location.

Exactly.  That's why ZONE_APPEND is the only really viable high-level
interface.



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