On 9/8/21 8:35 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote: > Single LUN multi-actuator hard-disks are cappable to seek and execute > multiple commands in parallel. This capability is exposed to the host > using the Concurrent Positioning Ranges VPD page (SCSI) and Log (ATA). > Each positioning range describes the contiguous set of LBAs that an > actuator serves. > > This series adds support to the scsi disk driver to retreive this > information and advertize it to user space through sysfs. libata is > also modified to handle ATA drives. > > The first patch adds the block layer plumbing to expose concurrent > sector ranges of the device through sysfs as a sub-directory of the > device sysfs queue directory. Patch 2 and 3 add support to sd and > libata. Finally patch 4 documents the sysfs queue attributed changes. > Patch 5 fixes a typo in the document file (strictly speaking, not > related to this series). > > This series does not attempt in any way to optimize accesses to > multi-actuator devices (e.g. block IO schedulers or filesystems). This > initial support only exposes the independent access ranges information > to user space through sysfs. Let's get this queued up for 5.16. I forgot what we agreed upon, can go either block or SCSI. We likely have a bunch more block changes this round than usual, and hence a higher risk of conflict, so from that perspective alone I think the block layer would be easier. In any case, Damien, it needs a respin as it doesn't apply against my for-5.16/block at this point. -- Jens Axboe
