Received: by 2002:a05:6a10:a0d1:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id j17csp3240494pxa; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:00:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzSt4QBAZ0BrFqYUm5ZJVKiut4YUVHZVOTMyX/zfeEkNp++MfpjydN1Z9W5OSk8F9R8D0AV X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:60e:: with SMTP id n14mr20728779edv.29.1597770035681; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:00:35 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1597770035; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=GF5KhbxGn6UnJWyzew+bqKDyWVCYLzZ0+IWFqlg8p7DNSoUFVcKMctrM3pa5VwQvOY Cd7/NQlPGuBa5K2uifdc8MKCyT1/sn4Ktu6E6FOt6006tAQSpFoN1xaUopHT+E1iUgA3 85KwcLwb1/o9fTI3b5fKYu1t7mfxgCZBpf3KxVaTc4gr4RaiDNl9+Wh0836nJQGbZm6q 69OX+yvghyhv53MfbCWTz9x/EW2vreTdRmQtDPCx7Gqs32P2Mj1wVUyDq8ws941/4i7q LuWjTO6kn/Qwq9BvS/EvT4/w4ruwOrZBuTNoqnR4dFWXEf6oPPT8bTLU7rqS0blZOwtm NyWg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:sender:in-reply-to:content-disposition :mime-version:references:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date :dkim-signature; bh=YAxfXVhRRyjsoOwe1xBQcE8TbImFIWnjUwrnAZb31Lw=; b=ldkGKnfp4h9Mzs6jbJFJrf1RdJ+OMAlxIHWvpXG4uKZyTzD9mTIkT0jalWSNuCg033 xN4t5BdvDnVOMcqfWWUSPcIsCymHYJ3n/ALLauSuKvzopQpYcK8eN4gYqOxPUOOTlF5M swE2mNJ3VuYIdzoG0T4H9jA1wWIUp1ocR2eChu0uWlC675aq8oEGm5iEU9s+XEA+jNoH CA0EckvXsYfwFsfc91ryLB7DNtmem7PjXM+P9iw8dE0STVHS8LZ3c7MpuXcU5z7sNLg1 QIaAfKGQqJ+leEAkvuA02tSIWA/v3eBxboraF3bTSKyvdd3nDaMgrzadCzU+p1C4OX/v AZGQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@kernel.org header.s=default header.b=1iUF9fGW; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [23.128.96.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f21si13786535ejq.412.2020.08.18.10.00.11; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@kernel.org header.s=default header.b=1iUF9fGW; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728623AbgHRQ7L (ORCPT + 99 others); Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:59:11 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:42134 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728590AbgHRQ6O (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:58:14 -0400 Received: from dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdl.wdc.com (unknown [199.255.45.60]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C4ED820786; Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:58:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1597769894; bh=YAxfXVhRRyjsoOwe1xBQcE8TbImFIWnjUwrnAZb31Lw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=1iUF9fGWN0aHSMGoqUSaAjHfsDTcjYZVjy1XM6ZoRFmrtfQC2skiaGju3vBOHkRBa 9RuixYt/WxpPJe14gR/l678gCwYGyxE9hthiA9Dl3CCk7RcniaRbXA58Qld2gdcEpg 7/cA3WV5m3AXIhU26J4vJTXSRnED+4/afv5fAbz8= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:58:11 -0700 From: Keith Busch To: Javier Gonzalez Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Kanchan Joshi , Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com, axboe@kernel.dk, sagi@grimberg.me, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com, Nitesh Shetty , SelvaKumar S Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append Message-ID: <20200818165811.GA2979311@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdl.wdc.com> References: <20200818052936.10995-1-joshi.k@samsung.com> <20200818052936.10995-3-joshi.k@samsung.com> <20200818071249.GB2544@lst.de> <20200818095033.h6ybdwiq3ljagl5a@mpHalley.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200818095033.h6ybdwiq3ljagl5a@mpHalley.local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Javier Gonzalez wrote: > a number of customers are requiring the use of normal writes, which we > want to support. A device that supports append is completely usable for those customers, too. There's no need to create divergence in this driver.