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Re: [PATCH v13 3/8] block: add block layer APIs resembling Linux ZonedBl


From: Sam Li
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 3/8] block: add block layer APIs resembling Linux ZonedBlockDevice ioctls
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 21:24:28 +0800

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> 于2022年12月5日周一 20:20写道:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:24:10AM +0800, Sam Li wrote:
> > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> 于2022年11月30日周三 10:01写道:
> > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 11:46, Sam Li <faithilikerun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > @@ -1374,9 +1428,11 @@ static int 
> > > > hdev_probe_blocksizes(BlockDriverState *bs, BlockSizes *bsz)
> > > >      int ret;
> > > >
> > > >      /* If DASD, get blocksizes */
> > > > +#ifndef CONFIG_BLKZONED
> > > >      if (check_for_dasd(s->fd) < 0) {
> > > >          return -ENOTSUP;
> > > >      }
> > > > +#endif
> > >
> > > What is the purpose of this #ifndef? .bdrv_probe_blocksizes() should
> > > only return block sizes for s390 DASD devices. I don't think zoned
> > > storage needs block size probing here.
> >
> > Zoned storage needs to be virtualized with the correct physical block
> > size and logical block size. And the probing here can guarantee that.
> > Or virtio-blk may send wrong block size to the guest. If manually set
> > block size in the command line as before, it is somewhat inaccurate.
>
> I see. I/O won't work if the guest block size differs from the physical
> zoned device's block size.
>
> However, we must not do this for regular host_device BlockDriverStates.
> The block size is manually controlled from those devices and defaults to
> 512B. That way the blocksize doesn't change across live migration and
> break the guest.
>
> Please use a run-time check instead of an #ifdef. Only probe blocksizes
> for dasd and zoned devices.

I see. Like this?

#ifndef CONFIG_BLKZONED
static int hdev_probe_zbd_blocksizes(BlockDriverState *bs, BlockSizes *bsz){
    int ret;
    /* check zbd */
    ...
    /* probe zbd */
    ....    }
+#endif



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