Allow write zeroes operations (REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES) on the block
device, if the device supports an optional command bit set for write
zeroes. Add support to setup write zeroes command. Set maximum possible
write zeroes sectors in one write zeroes command according to
nvme write zeroes command definition.
This patch was posted as a part of block-write-zeroes support
implementation (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9454859/),
but did not make into mainline kernel as it got reverted due to
failure on the Linus's machine.
In this patch in order to be more cautious, we use NVMe controller's
maximum hardware sector size which is calculated based on the
controller's MDTS (Maximum Data Transfer Size) field to calculate
the maximum sectors for the write zeroes request.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[folded a fix from Keith Busch to properly respect
NVME_QUIRK_DEALLOCATE_ZEROES]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
6e02318eae