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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: "Ewan D. Milne" <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Permanently change thin provisioning method from user space?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:05:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1shikzztb.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498597291.10198.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Ewan D. Milne's message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:01:31 -0400")


Ewan,

> sd_fops->revalidate_disk() will cause the properties that cause the
> provisioning_mode to be evaluated to be re-read, and sd_config_discard()
> to set the determined mode.  We might want to re-think this, since the
> user overrode what was probed earlier.  However, we might also want to
> automatically handle the storage capabilities changing, so I'm not
> sure.

The intent was for people to use udev to override things. But I guess we
could entertain introducing a flag to distinguish between detected and
configured state.

> My reading of SBC-4r13 6.6.4 is that a WRITE SAME(16) w/UNMAP has
> a length limited by the MAXIMUM WRITE SAME LENGTH, and that is what
> sd.c implements, but I'm suspicious that the array treated a WRITE SAME(16)
> w/UNMAP of 2097152 blocks as an UNMAP and failed it w/ILLEGAL COMMAND,
> INVALID FIELD IN CDB.

Ugh :(

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-28  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-27 11:02 Permanently change thin provisioning method from user space? Andrei Borzenkov
2017-06-27 21:01 ` Ewan D. Milne
2017-06-28  1:05   ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2017-06-28  4:06   ` Andrei Borzenkov

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