On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 06:09, Sam Li <faithilike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I'm Sam Li, working on the Outreachy project which is to add zoned > device support to QEMU's virtio-blk emulation. > > For the first goal, adding QEMU block layer APIs resembling Linux ZBD > ioctls, I think the naive approach would be to introduce a new stable > struct zbd_zone descriptor for the library function interface. More > specifically, what I'd like to add to the BlockDriver struct are: > 1. zbd_info as zone block device information: includes numbers of > zones, size of logical blocks, and physical blocks. > 2. zbd_zone_type and zbd_zone_state > 3. zbd_dev_model: host-managed zbd, host-aware zbd > With those basic structs, we can start to implement new functions as > bdrv*() APIs for BLOCK*ZONE ioctls. > > I'll start to finish this task based on the above description. If > there is any problem or something I may miss in the design, please let > me know.
Hi Sam, Can you propose function prototypes for the new BlockDriver callbacks needed for zoned devices? Stefan
