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SubjectRe: [dm-devel] [PATCH] block: do not return -EOPNOTSUPP only when issue a discard request
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>>>>> "Yiwen" == jiangyiwen  <jiangyiwen@huawei.com> writes:

Yiwen> commit 8af1954d172a("blkdev: Do not return -EOPNOTSUPP if discard
Yiwen> is supported") only solve the situation of discard, because When
Yiwen> applications issue a discard request to device, they can't expect
Yiwen> deterministic behaviour. However, WRITE SAME should not ignore
Yiwen> error with EOPNOTSUPP, because if applications issue WRITE SAME
Yiwen> requests to device, it should return deterministic results to
Yiwen> applications according to the T10 standard, or else it will cause
Yiwen> an inconsistent state between upper layer and bottom layer.

Yiwen> So ignoring error with EOPNOTSUPP only in discard situation.

If an underlying device fails a WRITE SAME request, SCSI will not return
EOPNOTSUPP. Instead we will mark 0 bytes of the request as complete and
disable WRITE SAME support on the device. So any EOPNOTSUPP error in
this case would be coming from MD/DM.

That said, I agree with the patch.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering

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