On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 23:43 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 20:45 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 19:21 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
> > > kill this hack.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
> > > Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.com>
> > > [ ... ]
> > > diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> > > b/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> > > index c754ae33bf7b..d2f089cfa9ae 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_device.c
> > > @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ bool target_configure_unmap_from_queue(struct
> > > se_dev_attrib *attrib,
> > > attrib->unmap_granularity = q->limits.discard_granularity / block_size;
> > > attrib->unmap_granularity_alignment = q->limits.discard_alignment /
> > > block_size;
> > > - attrib->unmap_zeroes_data = q->limits.discard_zeroes_data;
> > > + attrib->unmap_zeroes_data = 0;
> > > return true;
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(target_configure_unmap_from_queue);
> >
> > Hello Christoph,
> >
> > Sorry that I hadn't noticed this before but I think that this patch
> > introduces a significant performance regressions for LIO users. Before
> > this patch the LBPRZ flag was reported correctly to initiator systems
> > through the thin provisioning VPD. With this patch applied that flag
> > will always be reported as zero, forcing initiators to submit WRITE
> > commands with zeroed data buffers instead of submitting the SCSI UNMAP
> > command to block devices for which discard_zeroes_data was set. From
> > target_core_spc.c:
> >
> > /* Thin Provisioning VPD */
> > static sense_reason_t spc_emulate_evpd_b2(struct se_cmd *cmd, unsigned char
> > *buf)
> > {
> > [ ... ]
> > /*
> > * The unmap_zeroes_data set means that the underlying device supports
> > * REQ_DISCARD and has the discard_zeroes_data bit set. This satisfies
> > * the SBC requirements for LBPRZ, meaning that a subsequent read
> > * will return zeroes after an UNMAP or WRITE SAME (16) to an LBA
> > * See sbc4r36 6.6.4.
> > */
> > if (((dev->dev_attrib.emulate_tpu != 0) ||
> > (dev->dev_attrib.emulate_tpws != 0)) &&
> > (dev->dev_attrib.unmap_zeroes_data != 0))
> > buf[5] |= 0x04;
> > [ ... ]
> > }
> >
>
> According to sd_config_discard(), it's SD_LBP_WS16, SD_LBP_WS10 and
> SD_LBP_ZERO that where ever setting unmap_zeros_data = 1 to begin with.
> For UNMAP, q->limits.discard_zeroes_data was never set.
>
> That said, it's pretty much implied that supporting DISCARD means
> subsequent READs return zeros, so target_configure_unmap_from_queue()
> should be setting attrib->unmap_zeroes_data = 1, or just dropping it
> all-together.
>
> Post -rc1, I'll push a patch to do the latter.
>
Or, another options is use bdev_write_zeroes_sectors() to determine when
dev_attrib->unmap_zeroes_data should be set.
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