On 2021/09/09 11:35, 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. Jens, Ping ? Any further comment on this series ? > > Changes from v7: > * Renamed functions to spell out "independent_access_range" instead of > using contracted names such as iaranges. Structure fields names are > changed to ia_ranges from iaranges. > * Added reviewed-by tags in patch 4 and 5 > > Changes from v6: > * Changed patch 1 to prevent a device from registering overlapping > independent access ranges. > > Changes from v5: > * Changed type names in patch 1: > - struct blk_crange -> sturct blk_independent_access_range > - struct blk_cranges -> sturct blk_independent_access_ranges > All functions and variables are renamed accordingly, using shorter > names related to the new type names, e.g. > sturct blk_independent_access_ranges -> iaranges or iars. > * Update the commit message of patch 1 to 4. Patch 1 and 4 titles are > also changed. > * Dropped reviewed-tags on modified patches. Patch 3 and 5 are > unmodified > > Changes from v4: > * Fixed kdoc comment function name mismatch for disk_register_cranges() > in patch 1 > > Changes from v3: > * Modified patch 1: > - Prefix functions that take a struct gendisk as argument with > "disk_". Modified patch 2 accordingly. > - Added a functional release operation for struct blk_cranges kobj to > ensure that this structure is freed only after all references to it > are released, including kobject_del() execution for all crange sysfs > entries. > * Added patch 5 to separate the typo fix from the crange documentation > addition. > * Added reviewed-by tags > > Changes from v2: > * Update patch 1 to fix a compilation warning for a potential NULL > pointer dereference of the cr argument of blk_queue_set_cranges(). > Warning reported by the kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>). > > Changes from v1: > * Moved libata-scsi hunk from patch 1 to patch 3 where it belongs > * Fixed unintialized variable in patch 2 > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx > * Changed patch 3 adding struct ata_cpr_log to contain both the number > of concurrent ranges and the array of concurrent ranges. > * Added a note in the documentation (patch 4) about the unit used for > the concurrent ranges attributes. > > Damien Le Moal (5): > block: Add independent access ranges support > scsi: sd: add concurrent positioning ranges support > libata: support concurrent positioning ranges log > doc: document sysfs queue/independent_access_ranges attributes > doc: Fix typo in request queue sysfs documentation > > Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst | 33 ++- > block/Makefile | 2 +- > block/blk-ia-ranges.c | 348 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > block/blk-sysfs.c | 26 ++- > block/blk.h | 4 + > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 57 ++++- > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 48 +++- > drivers/scsi/sd.c | 81 +++++++ > drivers/scsi/sd.h | 1 + > include/linux/ata.h | 1 + > include/linux/blkdev.h | 39 ++++ > include/linux/libata.h | 15 ++ > 12 files changed, 634 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 block/blk-ia-ranges.c > -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research
