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From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>
To: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com" <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>,
	"bvanassche@acm.org" <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	"ming.lei@redhat.com" <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
	"shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com" <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>,
	"vincent.fu@samsung.com" <vincent.fu@samsung.com>,
	"yukuai3@huawei.com" <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] null_blk: allow write zeores on membacked
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 05:10:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3fc1d06-7624-3283-ea6e-40a7a0b0fb39@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89b93617-2fb1-3757-9f80-ddc06f02683f@opensource.wdc.com>

On 10/4/22 21:57, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 10/5/22 12:16, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>> Add a helper functions to enable the REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operations
>> when null_blk is configured with the membacked mode.
>>
>> Since write-zeroes is a non-trivial I/O operation we need this to
>> add a blktest so we can test the non-trivial I/O path from the
>> application to the block layer.
> 
> Why a separate patch for this ? Introducing the module argument and
> configfs equivalent separately in 2 different patches is strange and does
> not facilitate review.
> 
> This patch should be merged with patch 1.
> 

Sounds good will merge it.

-ck



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-05  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-05  3:16 [PATCH 0/6] null_blk: allow REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES and cleanup Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  3:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] null_blk: allow write zeores on non-membacked Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  4:54   ` Damien Le Moal
2022-10-05  5:24     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05 18:33       ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  3:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] null_blk: allow write zeores on membacked Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  4:57   ` Damien Le Moal
2022-10-05  5:10     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni [this message]
2022-10-05 17:18   ` Brian Foster
2022-10-05  3:16 ` [PATCH 3/6] null_blk: code cleaup Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  5:02   ` Damien Le Moal
2022-10-05  5:21     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  3:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] null_blk: initialize cmd->bio in __alloc_cmd() Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  5:04   ` Damien Le Moal
2022-10-05  3:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] null_blk: don't use magic numbers in the code Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  5:05   ` Damien Le Moal
2022-10-05  3:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] null_blk: remove extra space in switch condition Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-05  5:06   ` Damien Le Moal

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