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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID-10 keeps aborting
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:11:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1vc5spe3q.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51AF232C.8060209@itwm.fraunhofer.de> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:38:20 +0200")

>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de> writes:

Bernd> And I also don't see any driver setting max_ws_blocks, so
Bernd> everything except of libata gets the default of
Bernd> SD_MAX_WS10_BLOCKS. 

Yes. That's intentional. Unless the device provides MAXIMUM WRITE SAME
BLOCKS in the BLOCK LIMITS VPD.


Bernd> As the correct handling in the md layer seems to be difficult,
Bernd> can we send a fake request at device configuration time to figure
Bernd> out if the device really support write-same?

The problem is that WRITE SAME is destructive. And unfortunately a block
count of 0 means "write entire device".

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-05 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2013-06-05 11:38                     ` RAID-10 keeps aborting Bernd Schubert
2013-06-05 12:53                       ` [PATCH] scsi: Check if the device support WRITE_SAME_10 Bernd Schubert
2013-06-05 19:14                         ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-06-05 20:09                           ` Bernd Schubert
2013-06-07  2:15                             ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-06-12 19:34                               ` Bernd Schubert
2013-06-05 19:11                       ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]

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