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author | Linus Torvalds | 2016-12-13 10:19:16 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2016-12-13 10:19:16 -0800 |
commit | 36869cb93d36269f34800b3384ba7991060a69cf (patch) | |
tree | 1ff266dcb3386bb1403494aa89647a96fd2396cd /Documentation/ABI | |
parent | 9439b3710df688d853eb6cb4851256f2c92b1797 (diff) | |
parent | 7cd54aa8438947602cf68eda1db327822b9b8e6b (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.
The major parts of this pull request is:
- Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
private implementation instead of using the pig that is
fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.
- Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
writeback queue throttling code.
- Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.
- Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.
- Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
and Shaun.
- Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.
- Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
Christoph.
- A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
stopping and starting in blk-mq.
- Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.
- Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.
- Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.
- A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
here"
* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
parser: add u64 number parser
nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
...
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index 71d184dbb70d..2da04ce6aeef 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -235,3 +235,45 @@ Description: write_same_max_bytes is 0, write same is not supported by the device. +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_zeroes_max_bytes +Date: November 2016 +Contact: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> +Description: + Devices that support write zeroes operation in which a + single request can be issued to zero out the range of + contiguous blocks on storage without having any payload + in the request. This can be used to optimize writing zeroes + to the devices. write_zeroes_max_bytes indicates how many + bytes can be written in a single write zeroes command. If + write_zeroes_max_bytes is 0, write zeroes is not supported + by the device. + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/zoned +Date: September 2016 +Contact: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com> +Description: + zoned indicates if the device is a zoned block device + and the zone model of the device if it is indeed zoned. + The possible values indicated by zoned are "none" for + regular block devices and "host-aware" or "host-managed" + for zoned block devices. The characteristics of + host-aware and host-managed zoned block devices are + described in the ZBC (Zoned Block Commands) and ZAC + (Zoned Device ATA Command Set) standards. These standards + also define the "drive-managed" zone model. However, + since drive-managed zoned block devices do not support + zone commands, they will be treated as regular block + devices and zoned will report "none". + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/chunk_sectors +Date: September 2016 +Contact: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> +Description: + chunk_sectors has different meaning depending on the type + of the disk. For a RAID device (dm-raid), chunk_sectors + indicates the size in 512B sectors of the RAID volume + stripe segment. For a zoned block device, either + host-aware or host-managed, chunk_sectors indicates the + size of 512B sectors of the zones of the device, with + the eventual exception of the last zone of the device + which may be smaller. |