From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: <axboe@kernel.dk>, <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
<kernel-team@fb.com>,
"nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net"
<nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] nbd: set the logical and physical blocksize properly
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:47:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1486763262.4094.12.camel@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59F046CB-9EE6-4E45-A06D-3F352218E91B@alex.org.uk>
On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 21:07 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> >
> > On 10 Feb 2017, at 19:06, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> wrote:
> >
> > We noticed when trying to do O_DIRECT to an export on the server
> > side
> > that we were getting requests smaller than the 4k sectorsize of the
> > device. This is because the client isn't setting the logical and
> > physical blocksizes properly for the underlying device. Fix this
> > up by
> > setting the queue blocksizes and then calling bd_set_size.
> Interesting. Some input into the info extension (re blocksizes) would
> definitely be appreciated.
>
What do you mean? Right now the client is just calling NBD_SET_BLKSIZE
with 4k blocksize since all of our devices are 4k drives. Thanks,
Josef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-10 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-10 18:06 [PATCH] nbd: set the logical and physical blocksize properly Josef Bacik
2017-02-10 20:07 ` [Nbd] " Alex Bligh
2017-02-10 21:47 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2017-02-11 11:43 ` Wouter Verhelst
2017-02-11 16:13 ` Alex Bligh
2017-02-13 15:39 ` [PATCH V2] " Josef Bacik
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