From 4363ac7c13a9a4b763c6e8d9fdbfc2468f3b8ca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:19:27 -0400 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-sysfs.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'block/blk-sysfs.c') diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c index ea51d827a0bb..247dbfd42621 100644 --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c @@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ static ssize_t queue_discard_zeroes_data_show(struct request_queue *q, char *pag 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 @@ static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_discard_zeroes_data_entry = { .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 @@ static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = { &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, -- cgit