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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2017-04-05 19:21:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -0600 |
| commit | 71027e97d796d1e9b210a2f64bf2cc25e225a4c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c8a92f1126616ffba426158c5ce62a48e9120ac /block/blk-lib.c | |
| parent | 5d1429fead5beacce6df052c31b28a97a11e250b (diff) | |
| download | linux-71027e97d796d1e9b210a2f64bf2cc25e225a4c0.tar.bz2 | |
block: stop using discards for zeroing
Now that we have REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES implemented for all devices that
support efficient zeroing, we can remove the call to blkdev_issue_discard.
This means we only have two ways of zeroing left and can simplify the
code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-lib.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-lib.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c index 2f882e22890b..b0c6c4bcf441 100644 --- a/block/blk-lib.c +++ b/block/blk-lib.c @@ -279,6 +279,12 @@ static int __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(struct block_device *bdev, * Zero-fill a block range, either using hardware offload or by explicitly * writing zeroes to the device. * + * Note that this function may fail with -EOPNOTSUPP if the driver signals + * zeroing offload support, but the device fails to process the command (for + * some devices there is no non-destructive way to verify whether this + * operation is actually supported). In this case the caller should call + * retry the call to blkdev_issue_zeroout() and the fallback path will be used. + * * If a device is using logical block provisioning, the underlying space will * not be released if %flags contains BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP. * @@ -349,12 +355,6 @@ int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, struct bio *bio = NULL; struct blk_plug plug; - if (!(flags & BLKDEV_ZERO_NOUNMAP)) { - if (!blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, - BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO)) - return 0; - } - blk_start_plug(&plug); ret = __blkdev_issue_zeroout(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, &bio, flags); |