On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 07:40:36AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 07/22/2014 01:06 AM, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > >Add blist flags to permit the reading of the VPD pages even when > >the target may claim SPC-2 compliance. MSFT targets currently > >claim SPC-2 compliance while they implement post SPC-2 features. > >With this patch we can correctly handle WRITE_SAME_16 issues. > > > >Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:13:41PM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 07:15:58AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:10:28PM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > > I'm not sure this alone will work - won't sdev_bflags/bflags have > > > already been built at this point? > > > > They've been built up, but we can still or new values into it. It looks > > fine to me from review, but if you can test it on an actualy hypverv > > setup that would be valueable feedback. > > The previous patches didn't work for me with a Windows 2012 R2 host with a > 3.16.0-rc6.x86_64-00076-g2f7d2ec-dirty guest. After applying > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4541201 (which needed a small fixup) and > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4598601 and the attached debugging output I've tested f3cfabce7a2e92564d380de3aad4b43901fb7ae6 (Drivers: add blist flags) from the drivers-for-3.17 branch of scsi-queue (http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/scsi-queue.git/commit/f3cfabce7a2e92564d380de3aad4b43901fb7ae6 ) and this patch still doesn't appear to work (thin provisioning on Hyper-V's Virtual Disks is not enabled): # sg_inq /dev/sda standard INQUIRY: PQual=0 Device_type=0 RMB=0 version=0x04 [SPC-2] [AERC=0] [TrmTsk=0] NormACA=0 HiSUP=0 Resp_data_format=2 SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=0 [BQue=0] EncServ=0 MultiP=0 [MChngr=0] [ACKREQQ=0] Addr16=0 [RelAdr=0] WBus16=0 Sync=0 Linked=0 [TranDis=0] CmdQue=1 length=36 (0x24) Peripheral device type: disk Vendor identification: Msft Product identification: Virtual Disk Product revision level: 1.0 # sg_vpd -p lbpv /dev/sda Logical block provisioning VPD page (SBC): Unmap command supported (LBPU): 1 Write same (16) with unmap bit supported (LBWS): 0 Write same (10) with unmap bit supported (LBWS10): 0 Logical block provisioning read zeros (LBPRZ): 0 Anchored LBAs supported (ANC_SUP): 0 Threshold exponent: 1 Descriptor present (DP): 0 Provisioning type: 2 grep . /sys/block/sd*/device/scsi_disk/*/{thin,prov,rotat,device/model}* | sort /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/device/model:Virtual Disk /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/provisioning_mode:full /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/thin_provisioning:0 /sys/block/sdb/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:0/device/model:Virtual Disk /sys/block/sdb/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:0/provisioning_mode:full /sys/block/sdb/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:0/thin_provisioning:0 /sys/block/sdc/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:2/device/model:00AAKS-00TMA0 /sys/block/sdc/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:2/provisioning_mode:full /sys/block/sdc/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:2/thin_provisioning:0 /sys/block/sdd/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:1/device/model:SSD S510 120GB /sys/block/sdd/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:1/provisioning_mode:full /sys/block/sdd/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:1/thin_provisioning:0 /sys/block/sde/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:3/device/model:Virtual Disk /sys/block/sde/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:3/provisioning_mode:full /sys/block/sde/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:3/thin_provisioning:0 /sys/block/sdf/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:4/device/model:ST1000DM003-9YN1 /sys/block/sdf/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:4/provisioning_mode:full /sys/block/sdf/device/scsi_disk/1:0:0:4/thin_provisioning:0 At least the virtual disks should have thin_provisioning... I was also expecting the passthrough SSD to be reported as non-rotational with this patch: # sg_inq /dev/sdd standard INQUIRY: PQual=0 Device_type=0 RMB=0 version=0x00 [no conformance claimed] [AERC=0] [TrmTsk=0] NormACA=0 HiSUP=0 Resp_data_format=2 SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=0 [BQue=0] EncServ=0 MultiP=0 [MChngr=0] [ACKREQQ=0] Addr16=0 [RelAdr=0] WBus16=0 Sync=0 Linked=0 [TranDis=0] CmdQue=1 [SPI: Clocking=0x0 QAS=0 IUS=0] length=60 (0x3c) Peripheral device type: disk Vendor identification: ADATA Product identification: SSD S510 120GB Product revision level: 5.2. Unit serial number: 03205115500300002076 # sg_vpd -p bdc /dev/sdd Block device characteristics VPD page (SBC): Non-rotating medium (e.g. solid state) Product type: Not specified WABEREQ=0 WACEREQ=0 Nominal form factor not reported FUAB=0 VBULS=0 # grep -H . /sys/block/sdd/queue/rot* /sys/block/sdd/queue/rotational:1 -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html