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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, matthew@wil.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: add support for discard limits
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:05:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091030050558.GC17714@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1ws2dsh4g.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:19:43PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> ACS-2 doesn't currently have a notion of unmap granularity and all array
> vendors I have talked to appear to happily process any unmap request we
> throw at them.  So I'm leaning towards keeping things simple and just
> sending things down verbatim...

We have all the granularity and alignment information avilable and
keeping track of it is simple enough.  Yes md/dm will need to update
the first aligned unmap sector, but they'll also need to update the
first aligned LBA for I/O purposes and adding more more is simple
enough.

Given that these bits are in the standard vendors will use them sooner
or later and I'd rather be prepared if it's simple enough.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29 15:08 [PATCH 0/2] scsi discard support Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-29 15:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: add support for discard limits Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-29 19:06   ` Jens Axboe
2009-10-30  5:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-02 12:39       ` Jens Axboe
2009-10-30  3:19   ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-10-30  5:05     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-11-02 13:29       ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-11-02 15:39         ` James Bottomley
2009-11-02 18:16           ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-11-02 16:02         ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-11-02 18:18           ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-11-03 15:16         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-29 15:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] sd: add support for WRITE SAME (16) with unmap bit Christoph Hellwig

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