linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 01/27] target: remove an incorrect unmap zeroes data deduction

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Message-ID: <673afa25-cf3f-616c-6bcd-16de35b307b2@nvidia.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:36:12 +0000
From:   Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@...dia.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] target: remove an incorrect unmap zeroes data
 deduction

On 4/14/22 21:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> For block devices, the SCSI target drivers implements UNMAP as calls to
> blkdev_issue_discard, which does not guarantee zeroing just because
> Write Zeroes is supported.
> 
> Note that this does not affect the file backed path which uses
> fallocate to punch holes.
> 
> Fixes: 2237498f0b5c ("target/iblock: Convert WRITE_SAME to blkdev_issue_zeroout")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

Not a good assumption to have for sure.

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>

-ck