Re: [PATCH 7.2 0/2] ublk: enable UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC on zone appends

From: Ming Lei

Date: Thu May 21 2026 - 21:54:21 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 02:36:52PM -0600, Caleb Sander Mateos wrote:
> Commit 4d4a512a1f87 ("ublk: add PFN-based buffer matching in I/O path")
> added support to ublk_setup_iod() for matching request buffers against
> registered UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC buffers, but missed adding it to
> ublk_setup_iod_zoned() for zoned requests. ublk_setup_iod_zoned()
> duplicates the code for initializing struct ublksrv_io_desc, making it
> easy to forget to keep them in sync. Move the common code to a helper
> function ublk_init_iod(). This allows zone appends to leverage the
> shared memory zero copy optimization.
>
> This series is based on "ublk: optimize ublk_rq_has_data()" [1]
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20260513211846.1956810-1-csander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Looks fine, it just allows the optimization for zone append.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Ming