On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> MS Windows mounts removable storage in "Removal optimized mode" by
> default. All the writes to the media are synchronous which is achieved
> by setting FUA (Force Unit Access) bit in SCSI WRITE(10,12) commands.
> This prevents I/O requests aggregation in block layer dramatically
> decreasing performance.
>
> This patch brings an option to accept or ignore mentioned bit
> a) via specifying module parameter "fua", or
> b) through sysfs entry
> /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/gadget/gadget-lun-N/fua
...
> @@ -111,11 +113,11 @@
> * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
> *
> * If CONFIG_USB_FILE_STORAGE_TEST is not set, only the "file", "ro",
> - * "removable", "luns", "stall", and "cdrom" options are available; default
> + * "removable", "luns", "fua", "stall", and "cdrom" options are available; default
> * values are used for everything else.
> *
> * The pathnames of the backing files and the ro settings are available in
> - * the attribute files "file" and "ro" in the lun<n> subdirectory of the
> + * the attribute files "file", "fua", and "ro" in the lun<n> subdirectory of the
> * gadget's sysfs directory. If the "removable" option is set, writing to
> * these files will simulate ejecting/loading the medium (writing an empty
> * line means eject) and adjusting a write-enable tab. Changes to the ro
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> @@ -307,6 +309,7 @@ static struct {
>
> int removable;
> int can_stall;
> + int fua;
> int cdrom;
>
> char *transport_parm;
> @@ -326,6 +329,7 @@ static struct {
> .protocol_parm = "SCSI",
> .removable = 0,
> .can_stall = 1,
> + .fua = 1,
> .cdrom = 0,
> .vendor = FSG_VENDOR_ID,
> .product = FSG_PRODUCT_ID,
> @@ -350,6 +354,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(removable, "true to simulate removable media");
> module_param_named(stall, mod_data.can_stall, bool, S_IRUGO);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(stall, "false to prevent bulk stalls");
>
> +module_param_named(fua, mod_data.fua, bool, S_IRUGO);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(fua, "true to obey SCSI WRITE(6,10,12) FUA bit");
> +
> module_param_named(cdrom, mod_data.cdrom, bool, S_IRUGO);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(cdrom, "true to emulate cdrom instead of disk");
This implementation is wrong. If "fua" is supposed to be per-lun
then the module parameter needs to accept an array of values, like the
"file" and "ro" parameters.
Alan Stern
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