On 11/25/24 2:58 PM, 韦龙平(Groot) wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:00:52 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 11:22:51AM +0800, LongPing Wei wrote:
>>> When dm level submit a bio with bi_size > max_sectors_kb of lower device,
>>> blk_mq_submit_bio will split it into several ones with limited bi_size.
>>> It may be a potential unordered issue as it breaks the ZWL design in dm
>>> on 6.6.
>>
>> What is ZWL?  And why mention 6.6?  And why do you care about ordering?
> ZWL is Zone-Write-Locking and it was replaced by Zone-Write-Plugging on 6.12.

6.10.

>> There is no real ordering requirement in the block layer.
> According to the design constraints of zoned device, write requests in the 
> same
> zone must be dispatched in order of address and there can be no holes in the 
> middle


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research

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