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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 02:17:11PM -0800, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
> 
> This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
> LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
> either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
> The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
> but in the future this should also help with improving the way
> zeroing discards work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@hgst.com>
> ---

I think we also to assign queue_limits for stacked devices in
blk_stack_limits. Otherwise, looks good.