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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEF02B0.2060506@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1eioh9hsr.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 11/02/2009 03:29 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> With heterogeneous md and dm devices there may not be a meaningful value
> to put in the discard granularity field.  Then what?
> 

These alignment masks may only be base-2, no?
If so then the max alignment of all devices will work for any device.

I think
Boaz

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 16:02 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
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 [this message]
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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