Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/8] dm: add BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP support

Zhang Yi
2025-02-08T03:13:15Z

On 2025/2/8 6:14, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 07:46:33PM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
>> From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
>>
>> Set the BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP feature on stacking queue limits by
>> default. This feature shall be disabled if any underlying device does
>> not support it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/md/dm-table.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
>> index bd8b796ae683..58cce31bcc1e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
>> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
>> @@ -598,7 +598,8 @@ int dm_split_args(int *argc, char ***argvp, char *input)
>> static void dm_set_stacking_limits(struct queue_limits *limits)
>> {
>> blk_set_stacking_limits(limits);
>> - limits->features |= BLK_FEAT_IO_STAT | BLK_FEAT_NOWAIT | BLK_FEAT_POLL;
>> + limits->features |= BLK_FEAT_IO_STAT | BLK_FEAT_NOWAIT | BLK_FEAT_POLL |
>> + BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP;
>> }
>>
>
> dm_table_set_restrictions() can set limits->max_write_zeroes_sectors to
> 0, and it's called after dm_calculate_queue_limits(), which calls
> blk_stack_limits(). Just to avoid having the BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP
> still set while a device's max_write_zeroes_sectors is 0, it seems like
> you would want to clear it as well if dm_table_set_restrictions() sets
> limits->max_write_zeroes_sectors to 0.
>

Hi, Ben!

Yeah, right. Thanks for pointing this out, and I also checked other
instances in dm where max_write_zeroes_sectors is set to 0, and it seems
we should also clear BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP in
disable_write_zeroes() as well.

Thanks,
Yi.