RE: [PATCH 4/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Filter WRITE_SAME_16

KY Srinivasan
2014-07-09T21:14:00Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:jbottomley@parallels.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 12:57 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; hch@infradead.org;
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; apw@canonical.com; stable@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; ohering@suse.com; jasowang@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Filter WRITE_SAME_16
>
> On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 19:52 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:43 AM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
> > > ohering@suse.com; jbottomley@parallels.com; jasowang@redhat.com;
> > > apw@canonical.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
> > > stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Filter
> > > WRITE_SAME_16
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:46:48PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > Host does not handle WRITE_SAME_16; filter this command out. This
> > > > patch is required to handle large devices (greater than 2 TB disks).
> > >
> > > Storvsc already sets the no_write_same flag, where is the command
> > > coming from?
> >
> > In spite of this flag, I see WRITE_SAME_16 being issued when I format
> > a device bigger than 2 TB; I tried both xfs and ext4. Windows hosts
> > currently do not handle unsupported commands correctly - The
> > information returned is not sufficient to effect recovery in the Linux guest.
> While this may be addressed in future hosts, this patch fixes the problem.
>
> What Christoph means is that this looks like a bug somewhere in SCSI itself.
> That means we need to find it and kill it, not add workarounds to every driver
> that sets no_write_same ...

James,

I will try to isolate this issue in the SCSI stack. If it is ok with you guys, I would still want to filter WRITE_SAME_16
(as we currently do WRITE_SAME) in our driver since this would address the problem for a large number of
customers on our platform.

Regards,

K. Y