[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 1/3] drbd: use blk_queue_max_discard_sectors helper
Chaitanya Kulkarni
chaitanyak at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 9 20:48:33 CET 2022
On 11/9/22 05:34, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote:
> We currently only set q->limits.max_discard_sectors, but that is not
> enough. Another field, max_hw_discard_sectors, was introduced in
> commit 0034af036554 ("block: make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes
> writeable").
>
> The difference is that max_discard_sectors can be changed from user
> space via sysfs, while max_hw_discard_sectors is the "hardware" upper
> limit.
>
> So use this helper, which sets both.
>
> This is also a fixup for commit 998e9cbcd615 ("drbd: cleanup
> decide_on_discard_support"): if discards are not supported, that does
> not necessarily mean we also want to disable write_zeroes.
>
> Fixes: 998e9cbcd615 ("drbd: cleanup decide_on_discard_support")
> Reviewed-by: Joel Colledge <joel.colledge at linbit.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder at linbit.com>
> ---
Using helper is absolutely right way of setting up discard
values...
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch at nvidia.com>
-ck
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