Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Remove zone reset all emulation

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Damien,

> Here is a set of patches based on block/for-next to remove the
> emulation for zone reset all from the block layer and move it to
> device mapper. This is done because device mapper is the only zoned
> device driver that does not natively support REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET_ALL.
> With this change, the emulation that may be required depending on a
> mapped device zone mapping is moved to device mapper and the reset all
> feature (BLK_FEAT_ZONE_RESETALL) can be deleted, as well as all the
> code handling this feature in blk-zoned.c. The DM-based handling of
> REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET_ALL can also be much faster than the block layer
> emulation as that operation can be forwarded as is to targets mapping
> all sequential write required zones.

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering




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