From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
axboe@kernel.dk, dm-devel@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: fix leaks associated with discard request payload
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:41:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100630104155.GA1370@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2B1B7D.2090607@panasas.com>
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:25:01PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> OK, Thanks, I see. Is it one of these operations, (like we have in OSD) where
> the CDB information spills into the payload? like the scatter-gather and extent
> lists and such.
For UNMAP the payload is a list of block number / length pairs, while
the CDB itself doesn't contain any information like that. It's a rather
awkward command.
> Do we actually use a WRITE_SAME which is not zero? for what use?
The kernel doesn't issue any WRITE SAME without the unmap bit set.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 14:59 [PATCH, RFC] block: don't allocate a payload for discard request Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-19 4:25 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-22 18:00 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-26 19:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: fix leaks associated with discard request payload Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 8:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 10:01 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 10:35 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 11:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 12:32 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 14:16 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 16:23 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 8:14 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 8:18 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 8:45 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 11:55 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-01 4:21 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 15:29 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-28 17:16 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-06-29 8:00 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-29 22:28 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2010-06-29 23:03 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-29 23:51 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-30 0:11 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2010-06-30 14:22 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-30 15:36 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-30 16:26 ` James Bottomley
2010-07-01 12:28 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2010-07-01 12:46 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-07-01 14:03 ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-07-01 12:49 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2010-06-30 8:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-30 8:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 10:25 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-30 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-30 10:57 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-30 12:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-26 19:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: defer the use of inline biovecs for discard requests Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 14:00 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 10:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 12:29 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-28 15:15 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 15:31 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-28 12:34 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 12:37 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-28 12:41 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 12:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 12:49 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 12:45 ` Mike Snitzer
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