[PATCH] NVMe: Create discard zero quirk white list
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Sat Mar 5 22:20:37 PST 2016
On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 05:39:49PM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Meh, indeed:
> >
> > "If a read occurs to a deallocated range, the controller shall return
> > all zeros, all ones, or the last data written to the associated LBA."
> >
> > time to write a TP for a bit on the identify page..
>
> Since we have a WRITE ZEROES command, do we need this?
WRITE ZEROES has no way to request deallocating blocks. It's the moral
equivalent of a WRITE SAME without the unmap bit of all zeroes.
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