target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation support
authorNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 04:08:38 +0000 (20:08 -0800)
committerNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:48:45 +0000 (12:48 -0800)
commitf6970ad31d42fceb38b5595cbad093a4d0bfcc43
tree12ac358feba2529dbd5b0ab488e0fe3b353c458b
parent773cbaf7460aa58c67d4dca83c3f8bca10323bbe
target/iblock: Add WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 emulation support

This patch adds support for emulation of WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 within
iblock_execute_write_same() backend code.

The emulation uses a bio_add_page() call for each sector, and by default
enforces a limit of max_write_same_len=0xFFFF (65536) sectors following
what scsi_debug reports per default for MAXIMUM WRITE SAME LENGTH.

It also sets max_write_same_len to the operational default at setup ->
iblock_configure_device() time.

(hch: Move unmap logic into iblock_execute_write_same_unmap + add
      check for single sector SGLs in iblock_execute_write_same)
(mkp: Update comment for 0xFFFF magic constant)
(nab: drop left-over max_write_same_len check in iblock_execute_write_same)

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c