| Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:42:49 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] zone-append support in aio and io-uring |
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:53:36PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > This patchset enables issuing zone-append using aio and io-uring direct-io interface. > > For aio, this introduces opcode IOCB_CMD_ZONE_APPEND. Application uses start LBA > of the zone to issue append. On completion 'res2' field is used to return > zone-relative offset.
Maybe it's obvious to everyone working with zoned drives on a daily basis, but please explain in the commit message why you need to return the zone-relative offset to the application.
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