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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: dgilbert@interlog.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation support
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:25:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1ehju28ib.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A5043E.1030301@interlog.com> (Douglas Gilbert's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:03:26 -0500")

>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> writes:

Doug> On 12-11-15 06:04 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> + /*
>>> + * Enable WRITE_SAME emulation for IBLOCK, use scsi_debug.c default
>>> + */
>> 
>> Why would we care what scsi_debug.c uses?

Doug> Would you prefer no hint of where the magic number came from? At
Doug> least somebody who cares when they see that comment might contact
Doug> Martin Petersen and ask why he chose that value.

And the answer is that WRITE SAME(10) takes a two-byte block count.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-15 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-08 20:07 [PATCH 0/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] target/sbc: Make WRITE_SAME check differentiate between UNMAP=[1,0] Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 10:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] target: Add max_write_same_len device attribute Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 10:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-15 19:23     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-16 13:05       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation support Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 11:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-15 15:03     ` Douglas Gilbert
2012-11-15 15:25       ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2012-11-15 19:29     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 19:32       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-15 20:01         ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2012-11-15 20:31           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-19 11:38           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-19 23:19             ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)

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