Re: [PATCH 14/26] block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits

Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
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On 6/17/24 08:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Move the nonrot flag into the queue_limits feature field so that it can
> be set atomically with the queue frozen.
> 
> Use the chance to switch to defaulting to non-rotational and require
> the driver to opt into rotational, which matches the polarity of the
> sysfs interface.
> 
> For the z2ram, ps3vram, 2x memstick, ubiblock and dcssblk the new
> rotational flag is not set as they clearly are not rotational despite
> this being a behavior change.  There are some other drivers that
> unconditionally set the rotational flag to keep the existing behavior
> as they arguably can be used on rotational devices even if that is
> probably not their main use today (e.g. virtio_blk and drbd).
> 
> The flag is automatically inherited in blk_stack_limits matching the
> existing behavior in dm and md.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>

Cheers,

Hannes
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