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. For the target code the only real use case was zeroing offload, which is kept with this series, and for DRBD I suspect the same based on the usage. git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git delete-write-same Gitweb: http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/delete-write-same Changes from RFC: - add zeroing offload for the SCSI target.