RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Add blist flags

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Wed Jul 23 2014 - 11:39:25 EST




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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Add blist flags
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 04:06:01PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Add blist flags to permit the reading of the VPD pages even when the
> > target may claim SPC-2 compliance. MSFT targets currently claim SPC-2
> > compliance while they implement post SPC-2 features.
> > With this patch we can correctly handle WRITE_SAME_16 issues.
>
> OK I've just seen this as I was about to post a similar patch to get discard
> going on Hyper-V. Will your patches handle Hyper-V pass through devices
> that support discard? The SSD I have here reports the following in the Linux

It should. Hyper-V does support pass through devices.

K. Y
> VM:
>
> # sg_vpd -p lbpv /dev/sdc
> Logical block provisioning VPD page (SBC):
> Unmap command supported (LBPU): 1
> Write same (16) with unmap bit supported (LBWS): 0
> Write same (10) with unmap bit supported (LBWS10): 0
> Logical block provisioning read zeros (LBPRZ): 0
> Anchored LBAs supported (ANC_SUP): 1
> Threshold exponent: 0
> Descriptor present (DP): 0
> Provisioning type: 0
>
> # sg_readcap -l /dev/sdc
> Read Capacity results:
> Protection: prot_en=0, p_type=0, p_i_exponent=0
> Logical block provisioning: lbpme=0, lbprz=0
> Last logical block address=234441647 (0xdf94baf), Number of logical
> blocks=234441648
> Logical block length=512 bytes
> Logical blocks per physical block exponent=0
> Lowest aligned logical block address=0
> Hence:
> Device size: 120034123776 bytes, 114473.5 MiB, 120.03 GB
>
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