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/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 1b22966..cdf1119 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
__REQ_PRIO, /* boost priority in cfq */
__REQ_DISCARD, /* request to discard sectors */
__REQ_SECURE, /* secure discard (used with __REQ_DISCARD) */
+ __REQ_WRITE_SAME, /* write same block many times */
__REQ_NOIDLE, /* don't anticipate more IO after this one */
__REQ_FUA, /* forced unit access */
@@ -185,13 +186,15 @@
#define REQ_META (1 << __REQ_META)
#define REQ_PRIO (1 << __REQ_PRIO)
#define REQ_DISCARD (1 << __REQ_DISCARD)
+#define REQ_WRITE_SAME (1 << __REQ_WRITE_SAME)
#define REQ_NOIDLE (1 << __REQ_NOIDLE)
#define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \
(REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)
#define REQ_COMMON_MASK \
(REQ_WRITE | REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO | \
- REQ_DISCARD | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_SECURE)
+ REQ_DISCARD | REQ_WRITE_SAME | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | \
+ REQ_SECURE)
#define REQ_CLONE_MASK REQ_COMMON_MASK
/* This mask is used for both bio and request merge checking */