If the kernel is built without CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED, a modprobe
of the null_blk driver with zoned=1 fails with 'Invalid argument'.
This can be confusing to users, prompting a search as to why the
parameter is invalid. To assist in that search, add a bit more
information to the failure, additionally adding to the documentation
that CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED is needed for zoned=1.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Added null_blk prefix to error message.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Adds support for exposing a null_blk device through the zone device
interface.
The interface is managed with the parameters zoned and zone_size.
If zoned is set, the null_blk instance registers as a zoned block
device. The zone_size parameter defines how big each zone will be.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias.bjorling@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
- The description of 'blocking' is missing in null_blk.txt
- The 'lightnvm' parameter has been removed in null_blk.c
This updates both in null_blk.txt.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add usage explanation for a shared_tags, introduced by commit:
82f402fefa ("null_blk: add support for shared tags")
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>
Reworded slightly.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
null_blk.c has initial value of
(1) nr_devices as 1.
(2) completion_nsec as 10,000ns, not 10.000ns.
documentation should be updated for fixes above.
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This parameter provide an option to disable io scheduler when nullb*
in multi-queue mode.
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
update the range of submits_queues, and correct usage hints.
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If CONFIG_NVM is disabled, loading null_block module with use_lightnvm=1
fails. But there are no messages and documents related to the failure.
Add the appropriate error message.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Massaged the text a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add support for registering as a LightNVM device. This allows us to
evaluate the performance of the LightNVM subsystem.
In /drivers/Makefile, LightNVM is moved above block device drivers
to make sure that the LightNVM media managers have been initialized
before drivers under /drivers/block are initialized.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Fix by Jens Axboe to remove unneeded slab cache and the following
memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The defaults for the module is to instantiate itself with blk-mq and a
submit queue for each CPU node in the system.
To save resources, initialize instead with a single submit queue.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Randy Dunlap reported a couple of grammar errors and unfortunate usages of
socket/node/core.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
John Pittman