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authorDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>2017-06-07 09:55:39 +0300
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2017-06-19 18:05:20 +0300
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dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target
The dm-zoned device mapper target provides transparent write access to zoned block devices (ZBC and ZAC compliant block devices). dm-zoned hides to the device user (a file system or an application doing raw block device accesses) any constraint imposed on write requests by the device, equivalent to a drive-managed zoned block device model. Write requests are processed using a combination of on-disk buffering using the device conventional zones and direct in-place processing for requests aligned to a zone sequential write pointer position. A background reclaim process implemented using dm_kcopyd_copy ensures that conventional zones are always available for executing unaligned write requests. The reclaim process overhead is minimized by managing buffer zones in a least-recently-written order and first targeting the oldest buffer zones. Doing so, blocks under regular write access (such as metadata blocks of a file system) remain stored in conventional zones, resulting in no apparent overhead. dm-zoned implementation focus on simplicity and on minimizing overhead (CPU, memory and storage overhead). For a 14TB host-managed disk with 256 MB zones, dm-zoned memory usage per disk instance is at most about 3 MB and as little as 5 zones will be used internally for storing metadata and performing buffer zone reclaim operations. This is achieved using zone level indirection rather than a full block indirection system for managing block movement between zones. dm-zoned primary target is host-managed zoned block devices but it can also be used with host-aware device models to mitigate potential device-side performance degradation due to excessive random writing. Zoned block devices can be formatted and checked for use with the dm-zoned target using the dmzadm utility available at: https://github.com/hgst/dm-zoned-tools Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> [Mike Snitzer partly refactored Damien's original work to cleanup the code] Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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@@ -521,6 +521,23 @@ config DM_INTEGRITY
To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called dm-integrity.
+config DM_ZONED
+ tristate "Drive-managed zoned block device target support"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_DM
+ depends on BLK_DEV_ZONED
+ ---help---
+ This device-mapper target takes a host-managed or host-aware zoned
+ block device and exposes most of its capacity as a regular block
+ device (drive-managed zoned block device) without any write
+ constraints. This is mainly intended for use with file systems that
+ do not natively support zoned block devices but still want to
+ benefit from the increased capacity offered by SMR disks. Other uses
+ by applications using raw block devices (for example object stores)
+ are also possible.
+
+ To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
+ be called dm-zoned.
+
If unsure, say N.
endif # MD