Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] null_blk: Support REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND

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On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:50:10AM +0900, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Support REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND requests for zone mode null_blk devices.
> Use the internally tracked zone write pointer position as the actual
> write position, which is returned using the command request __sector
> field in the case of an mq device and using the command BIO sector in
> the case of a BIO device. Since the write position is used for data copy
> in the case of a memory backed device, reverse the order in which
> null_handle_zoned() and null_handle_memory_backed() are called to ensure
> that null_handle_memory_backed() sees the correct write position for
> REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND operations.

I think moving null_zone_write earlier actually is a bug-fixd as is
as we should not touch memory if the zone condition or write pointer
isn't valid for a write.  I'd suggest splitting that out as a bug fix
and move it to the start of the series so that Jens can pick it up
ASAP.

Otherwise this looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>



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