On 23 August 2016 at 06:20, Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tanch...@seagate.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Tom Yan <tom.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It is always 1 merely because we prefer sticking to that. Say we want >> to enable multi-block payload now, it won't be 1 anymore. > > Sorry, I though that DSM TRIM is using 512 bytes here because > WRITE_SAME_16 has a payload of a single logical sector.
Nope, SCSI Write Same commands does not have payload (or in SCSI terms, parameter list / data-out buffer). > >> Also note that the payload is NOT always fully-filled. > > Oh, I was considering filling the remainder of the buffer > with 0's using memset() as you described to be "filly-filled" > in this case. Sorry for the confusion. Well yeah _after_ memset() it should always be "fully-filled" (i.e. 512-byte aligned). > > -- > Shaun Tancheff