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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: axboe@kernel.dk, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	philipp.reisner@linbit.com, lars.ellenberg@linbit.com,
	target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: RFC: remove REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:07:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170410160807.23674-1-hch@lst.de> (raw)

Now that we are using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES for all zeroing needs in the
kernel there is very little use left for REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME.  We only
have two callers left, and both just export optional protocol features
to remote systems: DRBD and the target code.

Do we have any major users of those?  If not removing it will clean up
a few warts in the block layer.

    git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git delete-write-same

Gitweb:

    http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/delete-write-same

             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-10 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-10 16:07 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] drbd: drop REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME support Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] target: remove iblock WRITE_SAME passthrough support Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-12  5:30   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-04-12  5:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-01  6:27     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-06-01  6:28       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-14 18:05     ` Bryant G. Ly
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] sd: remove write same support Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] md: drop WRITE_SAME support Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: remove write same support Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: remove REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME support Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: remove bio_no_advance_iter Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-10 16:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: use bio_has_data to check if a bio has bvecs Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-11 16:49 ` RFC: remove REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME Mike Christie

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