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block: Implement support for WRITE SAME

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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>
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Martin K. Petersen 2012-09-18 12:19:27 -04:00 • committed by Jens Axboe
parent f31dc1cd49
commit 4363ac7c13
11 changed files with 181 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ static inline bool bio_is_rw(struct bio *bio)
if (!bio_has_data(bio))
return false;
if (bio->bi_rw & REQ_WRITE_SAME)
return false;
return true;
}