linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: Better discard support for block devices

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Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:53:59 -0800
From:   Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>, asavery@...omium.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: Better discard support for block devices

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 4:06 PM Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> If the backing device for a loop device is a block device,
> then mirror the discard properties of the underlying block
> device into the loop device. While in there, differentiate
> between REQ_OP_DISCARD and REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES, which are
> different for block devices, but which the loop device had
> just been lumping together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>

Any thoughts on this patch? This fixes issues for us when using a loop
device backed by a block device, where we see many logs like:

[  372.767286] print_req_error: I/O error, dev loop5, sector 88125696

-Evan