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

[Andreas Hindborg]

Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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?

Yes that would be nice. But I did the report_zone command like a read
operation, so we are not currently copying any buffers to user space
when issuing the command, we just rely on the iod. I think it would be
better to use the start_sectors and nr_sectors of the iod instead. Then
we don't have to copy the blk_zone_report. What do you think?

BR Andreas