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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: jaxboe@fusionio.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
	snitzer@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:05:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A467D.1000703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330658571-12958-4-git-send-email-martin.petersen@oracle.com>

Il 02/03/2012 04:22, Martin K. Petersen ha scritto:
> +int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
> +			 sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +{
> +	if (bdev_write_same(bdev)) {
> +		unsigned char bdn[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
> +
> +		if (!blkdev_issue_write_same(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask,
> +					     ZERO_PAGE(0)))
> +			return 0;
> +
> +		bdevname(bdev, bdn);
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.\n",
> +		       bdn);
> +	}
> +
> +	return __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask);
> +}

Why not try DISCARD first if lbprz is true and the alignment is okay?
This doesn't even require WRITE SAME support in the disk.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-02  3:22 Write same support v3 Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 1/7] block: Clean up merge logic Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02 20:21   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 17:42     ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-07 16:52       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08  4:41         ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02 21:36   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 17:43     ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 2/7] block: Implement support for WRITE SAME Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02 22:08   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 17:54     ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-07 17:03       ` DISCARD/WRITE_SAME request accounting (Was: Re: [PATCH 2/7] block: Implement support for WRITE SAME) Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 10:48         ` Lukas Czerner
2012-03-09 16:54           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 3/7] block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-09 18:05   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-03-13  2:30     ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 4/7] block: ioctl to zero block ranges Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 5/7] scsi: Add a report opcode helper Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02  4:08   ` Jeff Garzik
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 6/7] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-05 15:07   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 17:58     ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02  3:22 ` [PATCH 7/7] sd: Use sd_ prefix for flush and discard functions Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-02 14:24 ` [PATCH] dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero Mike Snitzer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-16 18:43 Write same support v4 Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-16 18:43 ` [PATCH 3/7] block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME Martin K. Petersen

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