Christoph, > Now that we are using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES for all zeroing needs in the > kernel there is very little use left for REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME. We only > have two callers left, and both just export optional protocol features > to remote systems: DRBD and the target code. No particular objections from me. I had a half-baked series to do the same thing. One thing I would like is to either pull this series through SCSI or do the block pieces in a post merge branch because I'm about to post my discard/zeroing rework and that's going to clash with your changes. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering