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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] target/sbc: Make WRITE_SAME check differentiate between UNMAP=[1,0]
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:52:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121115105220.GB28956@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1352405238-23267-2-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org>

> +	if (flags[0] & 0x08)
> +		cmd->se_cmd_flags |= SCF_WRITE_SAME_DISCARD;

I don't like this flag at all.  We can still simply check the CDB
during ->execute_cmd and avoid this redundant flag.

Except for that bit the changes look fine, but should not be a patch
on their own.  Without an actual implementation this relaxation is
actively harmful.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-15 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-08 20:07 [PATCH 0/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] target/sbc: Make WRITE_SAME check differentiate between UNMAP=[1,0] Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 10:52   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-11-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] target: Add max_write_same_len device attribute Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 10:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-15 19:23     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-16 13:05       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-08 20:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation support Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 11:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-15 15:03     ` Douglas Gilbert
2012-11-15 15:25       ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-11-15 19:29     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-15 19:32       ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-15 20:01         ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2012-11-15 20:31           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-19 11:38           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-19 23:19             ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)

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