Re: [PATCH v9 0/5] Initial support for multi-actuator HDDs

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On 10/26/21 8:22 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.

I've applied 1/9 for now, as that clearly belongs in the block tree.
Might be the cleanest if SCSI does a post tree that depends on
for-5.16/block. Or I can apply it all as they are reviewed. Let me
know.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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