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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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Martin K. Petersen 2012-09-18 12:19:27 -04:00 • committed by Jens Axboe
commit 4363ac7c13
11 changed files with 181 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -1487,9 +1487,12 @@ struct bio_pair *bio_split(struct bio *bi, int first_sectors)
bp->bv1 = bi->bi_io_vec[0];
bp->bv2 = bi->bi_io_vec[0];
bp->bv2.bv_offset += first_sectors << 9;
bp->bv2.bv_len -= first_sectors << 9;
bp->bv1.bv_len = first_sectors << 9;
if (bio_is_rw(bi)) {
bp->bv2.bv_offset += first_sectors << 9;
bp->bv2.bv_len -= first_sectors << 9;
bp->bv1.bv_len = first_sectors << 9;
}
bp->bio1.bi_io_vec = &bp->bv1;
bp->bio2.bi_io_vec = &bp->bv2;