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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2012-09-18 18:19:27 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-09-20 14:31:45 +0200
commit4363ac7c13a9a4b763c6e8d9fdbfc2468f3b8ca4 (patch)
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parentblock: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges (diff)
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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>
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