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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2012-09-18 12:19:32 -0400
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2012-11-13 22:45:42 -0800
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[SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME
Implement support for WRITE SAME(10) and WRITE SAME(16) in the SCSI disk driver. - We set the default maximum to 0xFFFF because there are several devices out there that only support two-byte block counts even with WRITE SAME(16). We only enable transfers bigger than 0xFFFF if the device explicitly reports MAXIMUM WRITE SAME LENGTH in the BLOCK LIMITS VPD. - max_write_same_blocks can be overriden per-device basis in sysfs. - The UNMAP discovery heuristics remain unchanged but the discard limits are tweaked to match the "real" WRITE SAME commands. - In the error handling logic we now distinguish between WRITE SAME with and without UNMAP set. The discovery process heuristics are: - If the device reports a SCSI level of SPC-3 or greater we'll issue READ SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES to find out whether WRITE SAME(16) is supported. If that's the case we will use it. - If the device supports the block limits VPD and reports a MAXIMUM WRITE SAME LENGTH bigger than 0xFFFF we will use WRITE SAME(16). - Otherwise we will use WRITE SAME(10) unless the target LBA is beyond 0xFFFFFFFF or the block count exceeds 0xFFFF. - no_write_same is set for ATA, FireWire and USB. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/scsi/scsi_device.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
index 379d465..55367b0 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ struct scsi_device {
unsigned use_10_for_rw:1; /* first try 10-byte read / write */
unsigned use_10_for_ms:1; /* first try 10-byte mode sense/select */
unsigned no_report_opcodes:1; /* no REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES */
+ unsigned no_write_same:1; /* no WRITE SAME command */
unsigned skip_ms_page_8:1; /* do not use MODE SENSE page 0x08 */
unsigned skip_ms_page_3f:1; /* do not use MODE SENSE page 0x3f */
unsigned skip_vpd_pages:1; /* do not read VPD pages */