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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, bruce.lucas@mongodb.com,
	adam.radford@avagotech.com, kashyap.desai@avagotech.com,
	Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@avagotech.com>,
	Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@avagotech.com>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>,
	Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@avagotech.com>,
	MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@avagotech.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mptfusion: enable no_write_same for vmware scsi disks
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:28:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq14mvxudbv.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5421F020.1030309@canonical.com> (Chris J. Arges's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:11:44 -0500")

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> writes:

Chris> 1) Does this workaround make sense? Perhaps there is an easier
Chris>    way?

One option is to ship a udev rule that disables write same on VMware
disks. However, I don't have a fundamental problem having a workaround
for this in the kernel.

Chris> 2) Do we expect changing max_write_same_blocks at the scsi_disk
Chris>    level to propagate the right write_same flags to other layers
Chris>    such as dm?

No, there's currently no way to communicate that the underlying topology
has changed.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-23 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 17:56 [PATCH] mptfusion: enable no_write_same in scsi_host_template Chris J Arges
2014-09-22 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-22 18:17   ` Chris J Arges
2014-09-22 18:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-22 18:50       ` Chris J Arges
2014-09-22 20:44       ` [PATCH v2] mptfusion: enable no_write_same for vmware scsi disks Chris J Arges
2014-09-22 20:54         ` Chris J Arges
2014-09-23  7:11         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-23 14:22           ` [PATCH v3] " Chris J Arges
2014-09-23 15:29             ` Chris J Arges
2014-09-23 22:11             ` Chris J Arges
2014-09-23 23:28               ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2014-09-24  8:18                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-24 15:11                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-09-25 17:01             ` Christoph Hellwig

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