[dm-devel] [PATCH 03/11] null_blk: don't set the discard_alignment queue limit

Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal at opensource.wdc.com
Mon Apr 18 01:01:00 PDT 2022


On 4/18/22 13:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The discard_alignment queue limit is named a bit misleading means the
> offset into the block device at which the discard granularity starts.
> Setting it to the discard granularity as done by null_blk is mostly
> harmless but also useless.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>  drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
> index 5cb4c92cdffea..a521e914a9843 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
> @@ -1765,7 +1765,6 @@ static void null_config_discard(struct nullb *nullb)
>  	}
>  
>  	nullb->q->limits.discard_granularity = nullb->dev->blocksize;
> -	nullb->q->limits.discard_alignment = nullb->dev->blocksize;
>  	blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(nullb->q, UINT_MAX >> 9);
>  }
>  

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal at opensource.wdc.com>

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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