linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE

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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:25:32 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	dgilbert@...erlog.com
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation support

>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com> writes:

Doug> On 12-11-15 06:04 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> + /*
>>> + * Enable WRITE_SAME emulation for IBLOCK, use scsi_debug.c default
>>> + */
>> 
>> Why would we care what scsi_debug.c uses?

Doug> Would you prefer no hint of where the magic number came from? At
Doug> least somebody who cares when they see that comment might contact
Doug> Martin Petersen and ask why he chose that value.

And the answer is that WRITE SAME(10) takes a two-byte block count.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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