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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

  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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