public inbox for [email protected]
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Matias Bjørling" <[email protected]>
To: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>,
	Keith Busch <[email protected]>, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] zone-append support in aio and io-uring
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:04:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200618192153.GA4141485@test-zns>

On 18/06/2020 21.21, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:04:32AM +0200, Matias Bjørling wrote:
>> On 17/06/2020 19.23, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
>>> This patchset enables issuing zone-append using aio and io-uring 
>>> direct-io interface.
>>>
>>> For aio, this introduces opcode IOCB_CMD_ZONE_APPEND. Application 
>>> uses start LBA
>>> of the zone to issue append. On completion 'res2' field is used to 
>>> return
>>> zone-relative offset.
>>>
>>> For io-uring, this introduces three opcodes: 
>>> IORING_OP_ZONE_APPEND/APPENDV/APPENDV_FIXED.
>>> Since io_uring does not have aio-like res2, cqe->flags are 
>>> repurposed to return zone-relative offset
>>
>> Please provide a pointers to applications that are updated and ready 
>> to take advantage of zone append.
>>
>> I do not believe it's beneficial at this point to change the libaio 
>> API, applications that would want to use this API, should anyway 
>> switch to use io_uring.
>>
>> Please also note that applications and libraries that want to take 
>> advantage of zone append, can already use the zonefs file-system, as 
>> it will use the zone append command when applicable.
>
> AFAIK, zonefs uses append while serving synchronous I/O. And append bio
> is waited upon synchronously. That maybe serving some purpose I do
> not know currently. But it seems applications using zonefs file
> abstraction will get benefitted if they could use the append 
> themselves to
> carry the I/O, asynchronously.
Yep, please see Christoph's comment regarding adding the support to zonefs.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-18 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20200617172653epcas5p488de50090415eb802e62acc0e23d8812@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2020-06-17 17:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] zone-append support in aio and io-uring Kanchan Joshi
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200617172702epcas5p4dbf4729d31d9a85ab1d261d04f238e61@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2020-06-17 17:23     ` [PATCH 1/3] fs,block: Introduce IOCB_ZONE_APPEND and direct-io handling Kanchan Joshi
2020-06-17 19:02       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-18  7:16       ` Damien Le Moal
2020-06-18 18:35         ` Kanchan Joshi
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200617172706epcas5p4dcbc164063f58bad95b211b9d6dfbfa9@epcas5p4.samsung.com>
2020-06-17 17:23     ` [PATCH 2/3] aio: add support for zone-append Kanchan Joshi
2020-06-18  7:33       ` Damien Le Moal
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200617172713epcas5p352f2907a12bd4ee3c97be1c7d8e1569e@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2020-06-17 17:23     ` [PATCH 3/3] io_uring: " Kanchan Joshi
2020-06-17 18:55       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-18  7:39       ` Damien Le Moal
2020-06-18  8:35         ` [email protected]
2020-06-18  8:47           ` Damien Le Moal
2020-06-18  9:11             ` [email protected]
2020-06-19  9:41               ` [email protected]
2020-06-19 11:15                 ` Matias Bjørling
2020-06-19 14:18                   ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-19 15:14                     ` Matias Bjørling
2020-06-19 15:20                       ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-19 15:40                         ` Matias Bjørling
2020-06-19 15:44                           ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-21 18:55                             ` [email protected]
2020-06-19 14:15                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-19 14:59                   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-19 15:02                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-21 18:52                       ` [email protected]
2020-06-17 17:42   ` [PATCH 0/3] zone-append support in aio and io-uring Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-18  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-18  8:29     ` Javier González
2020-06-18 17:52     ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-06-19  3:08       ` Damien Le Moal
2020-06-19  7:56       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-18  8:04   ` Matias Bjørling
2020-06-18  8:27     ` Javier González
2020-06-18  8:32       ` Matias Bjørling
2020-06-18  8:39         ` Javier González
2020-06-18  8:46           ` Matias Bjørling
2020-06-18 14:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-18 19:21     ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-06-18 20:04       ` Matias Bjørling [this message]
2020-06-19  1:03         ` Damien Le Moal

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    [email protected] \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox