Re: [RFC] libata-scsi: make sure Maximum Write Same Length is not too large

Started by Martin K. Petersen on Aug 16, 2016

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"Tom" == Tom Yan [off-list ref] writes:
Tom,

Tom> The thing is, as of ACS-4, blocks that carry DSM/TRIM LBA Range
Tom> Entries are always 512-byte.

Lovely. And SAT conveniently ignores this entirely.

Tom> Honestly, I have no idea how that would work on a 4Kn SSD, if it is
Tom> / will ever be a thing.

Highly unlikely.

But I guess you would have to report 8 512-byte ranges in the 4Kn
case. And then rely on the patch we talked about to clamp the number of
sectors based on the block layer limit.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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