From: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>,
Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
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SelvaKumar S <[email protected]>,
Nitesh Shetty <[email protected]>,
Javier Gonzalez <[email protected]>,
Adam Manzanares <[email protected]>,
"Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] io_uring: add support for zone-append
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 12:51:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220302205151.76f6wfqb2t3llnvf@garbanzo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 07:45:26AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 06:42:10AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > > - We may not be able to use RWF_APPEND, and need exposing a new
> > > type/flag (RWF_INDIRECT_OFFSET etc.) user-space. Not sure if this
> > > sounds outrageous, but is it OK to have uring-only flag which can be
> > > combined with RWF_APPEND?
> >
> > Why ? Where is the problem ? O_APPEND/RWF_APPEND is currently meaningless for
> > raw block device accesses. We could certainly define a meaning for these in the
> > context of zoned block devices.
>
> We can't just add a meaning for O_APPEND on block devices now,
Make sense.
Is a new call system call for nameless writes called for instead then?
Then there is no baggage. Or is this completely stupid?
> as it was previously silently ignored. I also really don't think any
> of these semantics even fit the block device to start with. If you
> want to work on raw zones use zonefs, that's what is exists for.
Using zonefs adds a slight VFS overhead. Fine if we want to live with
that, but I have a feeling if we want to do something like just testing
hot paths alone to compare apples to apples we'd want something more
fine grained.
Luis
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2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] zone-append support in io-uring and aio Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20200724155258epcas5p1a75b926950a18cd1e6c8e7a047e6c589@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] fs: introduce FMODE_ZONE_APPEND and IOCB_ZONE_APPEND Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-24 16:34 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-26 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 1:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-28 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20200724155324epcas5p18e1d3b4402d1e4a8eca87d0b56a3fa9b@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] fs: change ki_complete interface to support 64bit ret2 Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-26 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20200724155329epcas5p345ba6bad0b8fe18056bb4bcd26c10019@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] uio: return status with iov truncation Kanchan Joshi
[not found] ` <CGME20200724155341epcas5p15bfc55927f2abb60f19784270fe8e377@epcas5p1.samsung.com>
2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] block: add zone append handling for direct I/O path Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-26 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20200724155346epcas5p2cfb383fe9904a45280c6145f4c13e1b4@epcas5p2.samsung.com>
2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] block: enable zone-append for iov_iter of bvec type Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-26 15:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20200724155350epcas5p3b8f1d59eda7f8fbb38c828f692d42fd6@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2020-07-24 15:49 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] io_uring: add support for zone-append Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-24 16:29 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-27 19:16 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-27 20:34 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-30 16:08 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-30 16:13 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-30 16:26 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-30 17:16 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-30 17:38 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-30 17:51 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-30 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-30 18:25 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-31 6:42 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-07-31 6:45 ` hch
2020-07-31 6:59 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-07-31 7:58 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-31 8:14 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-07-31 9:14 ` hch
2020-07-31 9:34 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-07-31 9:41 ` hch
2020-07-31 10:16 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-07-31 12:51 ` hch
2020-07-31 13:08 ` hch
2020-07-31 15:07 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-02 20:47 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-08-05 7:35 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-08-14 8:14 ` hch
2020-08-14 8:27 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-08-14 12:04 ` hch
2020-08-14 12:20 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-09-07 7:01 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-09-08 15:18 ` hch
2020-09-24 17:19 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-09-25 2:52 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-09-28 18:58 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-09-29 1:24 ` Damien Le Moal
2020-09-29 18:49 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-02 20:43 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-31 9:38 ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-03-02 20:51 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2020-07-31 7:08 ` Kanchan Joshi
2020-07-30 15:57 ` Pavel Begunkov
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