Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH v7] virtio-blk: add zoned block device specification

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:06:32PM -0400, Dmitry Fomichev wrote:

A minor issue about normative vs non-normative sections:

> +Devices that offer the VIRTIO_BLK_F_ZONED feature while reporting the
> +VIRTIO_BLK_Z_NONE zoned model are drive-managed zoned block devices. In this
> +case, the driver should treat the device as a regular non-zoned block device.

The VIRTIO spec tries to use should/may/must/etc in the drivernormative
and devicenormative sections. The non-normative sections describe the
interface without making normative statements.

Use of "should" suggests that maybe this should be in a normative
section? If you decide not to move it to a normative section then you
could simply reword it:

  "the driver treats the device as a regular ..."

> +
> +Host-managed zoned block devices have their LBA range divided into Sequential
> +Write Required (SWR) zones that require some additional handling from the host
> +for correct operation. All write requests to SWR zones must be sequential and

There is a "must" here. Same question as above.

Aside from that:

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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