block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.
This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index ea51d82..247dbfd 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@
return queue_var_show(queue_discard_zeroes_data(q), page);
}
+static ssize_t queue_write_same_max_show(struct request_queue *q, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%llu\n",
+ (unsigned long long)q->limits.max_write_same_sectors << 9);
+}
+
+
static ssize_t
queue_max_sectors_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *page, size_t count)
{
@@ -385,6 +392,11 @@
.show = queue_discard_zeroes_data_show,
};
+static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_write_same_max_entry = {
+ .attr = {.name = "write_same_max_bytes", .mode = S_IRUGO },
+ .show = queue_write_same_max_show,
+};
+
static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_nonrot_entry = {
.attr = {.name = "rotational", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR },
.show = queue_show_nonrot,
@@ -432,6 +444,7 @@
&queue_discard_granularity_entry.attr,
&queue_discard_max_entry.attr,
&queue_discard_zeroes_data_entry.attr,
+ &queue_write_same_max_entry.attr,
&queue_nonrot_entry.attr,
&queue_nomerges_entry.attr,
&queue_rq_affinity_entry.attr,