Nicholas, > The people who are actively using iblock_execute_write_same_direct() > are doing so in the context of ESX VAAI BlockZero, together with > EXTENDED_COPY and COMPARE_AND_WRITE primitives. > > In practice though I've not seen any users of IBLOCK WRITE_SAME for > anything other than VAAI BlockZero, so just using > blkdev_issue_zeroout() when available, and falling back to > iblock_execute_write_same() if the WRITE_SAME buffer contains anything > other than zeros should be OK. > > (Hook up max_write_zeroes_sectors to signal LBPRZ feature bit in > target_configure_unmap_from_queue - nab)
Looks reasonable. Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
