From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] block: move dif_prepare/dif_complete functions to block layer
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:55:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180724135546.GB29918@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1532439222-5668-2-git-send-email-maxg@mellanox.com>
> +/*
> + * The virtual start sector is the one that was originally submitted
> + * by the block layer. Due to partitioning, MD/DM cloning, etc. the
> + * actual physical start sector is likely to be different. Remap
> + * protection information to match the physical LBA.
> + *
> + * From SCSI protocol perspective there's a slight difference between
> + * Type 1 and 2. The latter uses command's 32-byte exclusively, and the
> + * reference tag is seeded in the command. This gives us the potential to
> + * avoid virt->phys remapping during write. However, at read time we
> + * don't know whether the virt sector is the same as when we wrote it
> + * (we could be reading from real disk as opposed to MD/DM device. So
> + * we always remap Type 2 making it identical to Type 1.
> + *
> + * Type 3 does not have a reference tag so no remapping is required.
> + */
Please convert the comments for t10_pi_prepare/t10_pi_complete to
kerneldoc format, and remove the mention of 32-byte CDBs, which
are SCSI specific.
Otherwise this looks good to me.
Note that after this patch only sd_dif_config_host is left in sd_dif.c,
at which point it might be worth merging into sd.c as a separate patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-24 13:33 [PATCH 1/3] block: move ref_tag calculation func to the block layer Max Gurtovoy
2018-07-24 13:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] block: move dif_prepare/dif_complete functions to " Max Gurtovoy
2018-07-24 13:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-07-24 14:33 ` Max Gurtovoy
2018-07-24 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-24 20:33 ` Keith Busch
2018-07-24 22:32 ` Max Gurtovoy
2018-07-24 13:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: use blk API to remap ref tags for IOs with metadata Max Gurtovoy
2018-07-24 13:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-24 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: move ref_tag calculation func to the block layer Christoph Hellwig
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