Re: [PATCH v2] block: ublk: enable zoned storage support

[Ming Lei]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 5:02 PM Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 04:32:21PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 08:31:07AM +0100, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
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> > > I agree about fetching more zones. However, it is no good to fetch up to
> > > a max, since the requested zone report may less than max. I was
> >
> > Short read should always be supported, so the interface may need to
> > return how many zones in single command, please refer to nvme_ns_report_zones().
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> blk_zone is part of uapi, maybe the short read can be figured out by
> one all-zeroed 'blk_zone'?  then no extra uapi data is needed for
> reporting zones.

oops, we have blk_zone_report data for reporting zones to userspace already,
see blkdev_report_zones_ioctl(), then this way can be re-used for getting zone
report from ublk server too, right?

Thanks,
Ming