On 07/24/2016 12:13 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:

On 07/23/16 05:43, Hannes Reinecke wrote:

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On 07/22/2016 10:45 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

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"Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke [off-list ref] writes:

Hannes> Add a sysfs queue attribute 'zoned' to display the zone layout
Hannes> for zoned devices.

Not quite one value per file :(

Yes.
But I wanted to display the zone layout in a concise way allowing
user-space programs to determine the zone layout without having to
issue a 'REPORT ZONES' command themselves.
I found it slightly pointless to add one sysfs entry per zone,
and at the same time a simple 'zone_size' attribute wouldn't cover all
possibilities.

However, as SMR drives seem to stabilise around having a fixed zone size
(with a possible exemption of the last zone to cover left-overs)
I'd be fine a replace this with a single 'zone_size' attribute which
could be set to eg '-1' for drives which indeed would implement variable
zone sizes.

It's not that hard to convert the information exported by
queue_zoned_show() from a single sysfs attribute into one directory per
zone. Doing so would make it much easier for scripts to parse that
information and would also avoid that the zone information has to be
truncated because not all of it fits into a single page.

But this is precisely what I've tried to avoid.
Creating one file or directory per zone would mean we'll end up with
rough 20k files/directories.
Which I found rather excessive.

Of course, it that is not a concern that I can easily convert it.

Cheers,

Hannes
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