From 4363ac7c13a9a4b763c6e8d9fdbfc2468f3b8ca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:19:27 -0400 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index c1eb41cb987..279da08f754 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -206,3 +206,17 @@ Description: when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and the result of reading a discarded area is undefined. + +What: /sys/block//queue/write_same_max_bytes +Date: January 2012 +Contact: Martin K. Petersen +Description: + Some devices support a write same operation in which a + single data block can be written to a range of several + contiguous blocks on storage. This can be used to wipe + areas on disk or to initialize drives in a RAID + configuration. write_same_max_bytes indicates how many + bytes can be written in a single write same command. If + write_same_max_bytes is 0, write same is not supported + by the device. + -- cgit v1.2.3