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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>, Keith Busch <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCHv10 0/9] write hints with nvme fdp, scsi streams
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:18:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zy0k06wK0ymPm4BV@kbusch-mbp>

On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 01:36:35PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> The zone block support all looks pretty neat, but I think you're making
> this harder than necessary to support streams. You don't need to treat
> these like a sequential write device. The controller side does its own
> garbage collection, so no need to duplicate the effort on the host. And
> it looks like the host side gc potentially merges multiple streams into
> a single gc stream, so that's probably not desirable.

We're not really duplicating much.  Writing sequential is pretty easy,
and tracking reclaim units separately means you need another tracking
data structure, and either that or the LBA one is always going to be
badly fragmented if they aren't the same.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-08 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-29 15:19 [PATCHv10 0/9] write hints with nvme fdp, scsi streams Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 1/9] block: use generic u16 for write hints Keith Busch
2024-10-29 17:21   ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 2/9] block: introduce max_write_hints queue limit Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 3/9] statx: add write hint information Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 4/9] block: allow ability to limit partition write hints Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-29 17:25   ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-30  4:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 20:11       ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 20:26         ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-30 20:37           ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 21:15             ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 5/9] block, fs: add write hint to kiocb Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 6/9] io_uring: enable per-io hinting capability Keith Busch
2024-11-07  2:09   ` Jens Axboe
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 7/9] block: export placement hint feature Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 8/9] nvme: enable FDP support Keith Busch
2024-10-30  0:24   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2024-10-29 15:19 ` [PATCHv10 9/9] scsi: set permanent stream count in block limits Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-29 15:34     ` Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-29 15:38         ` Keith Busch
2024-10-29 15:53           ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-29 16:22             ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30  4:55               ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 15:41                 ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 15:45                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 15:48                     ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 15:50                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 16:42                         ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 16:57                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 17:05                             ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 17:15                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 17:23                             ` Keith Busch
2024-10-30 22:32                             ` Keith Busch
2024-10-31  8:19                               ` Hans Holmberg
2024-10-31 13:02                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-31 14:06                                 ` Keith Busch
2024-11-01  7:16                                   ` Hans Holmberg
2024-11-01  8:19                                     ` Javier González
2024-11-01 14:49                                     ` Keith Busch
2024-11-06 14:26                                       ` Hans Holmberg
2024-10-30 16:59                 ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-30 17:14                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-30 17:44                     ` Bart Van Assche
2024-11-01  1:03                       ` Jaegeuk Kim
2024-10-29 17:18     ` Bart Van Assche
2024-10-30  5:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-29 15:24 ` [PATCHv10 0/9] write hints with nvme fdp, scsi streams Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-05 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-06 18:36   ` Keith Busch
2024-11-07 20:36   ` Keith Busch
2024-11-08 14:18     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-11-08 15:51       ` Keith Busch
2024-11-08 16:54         ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-11-08 17:43           ` Javier Gonzalez
2024-11-08 18:51             ` Bart Van Assche
2024-11-11  9:31               ` Javier Gonzalez
2024-11-11 17:45                 ` Bart Van Assche
2024-11-12 13:52                   ` Nitesh Shetty
2024-11-19  2:03                     ` Martin K. Petersen
2024-11-11  6:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-11  9:30               ` Javier Gonzalez
2024-11-11  9:37                 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2024-11-11  9:41                   ` Javier Gonzalez
2024-11-11  9:42                     ` hch
2024-11-11  9:43                     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2024-11-11 10:37                       ` Javier Gonzalez
2024-11-11  6:49           ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-11  6:48         ` Christoph Hellwig

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