From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.12.0: sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. with 3w-xxxx driver
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:59:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1iovclm0m.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO9zADw-k+Qghk79yzwzaiYiPSoQnKwjjTBwrhcOrJxTWc-fOQ@mail.gmail.com> (Justin Piszcz's message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:01:12 -0500")
>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> writes:
Justin> Relevant logs: [178339.353519] 3w-sas: scsi0: ERROR:
Justin> (0x03:0x0101): Invalid command opcode:opcode=0x41.
Justin> [178339.353565] sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
Justin> Is this something I should be worried about?
No, it just means that your 3ware controller does not handle the WRITE
SAME command and we fall back to manually writing out zeroes.
I posted a patch a while back that prevents WRITE SAME being issued for
controllers that do not pass the commands through to disk directly:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=138252394614920&w=2
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-28 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-25 22:01 3.12.0: sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. with 3w-xxxx driver Justin Piszcz
2013-11-28 12:59 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2013-11-28 13:07 ` Justin Piszcz
2013-11-28 13:07 ` Justin Piszcz
2013-11-28 13:13 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-11-28 13:13 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-11-28 21:52 ` Justin Piszcz
2013-11-28 21:52 ` Justin Piszcz
2013-12-05 23:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2013-12-05 23:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2013-12-06 0:02 ` Greg KH
2013-12-06 0:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-12-06 0:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
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