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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2012-09-18 18:19:28 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-09-20 14:31:49 +0200
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parentblock: Implement support for WRITE SAME (diff)
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block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
If the device supports WRITE SAME, use that to optimize zeroing of blocks. If the device does not support WRITE SAME or if the operation fails, fall back to writing zeroes the old-fashioned way. 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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