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Currently, disks primarily implement the write zeroes command (aka REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES) through two mechanisms: the first involves physically writing zeros to the disk media (e.g., HDDs), while the second performs an unmap operation on the logical blocks, effectively putting them into a deallocated state (e.g., SSDs). The first method is generally slow, while the second method is typically very fast. For example, on certain NVMe SSDs that support NVME_NS_DEAC, submitting REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES requests with the NVME_WZ_DEAC bit can accelerate the write zeros operation by placing disk blocks into a deallocated state, which opportunistically avoids writing zeroes to media while still guaranteeing that subsequent reads from the specified block range will return zeroed data. This is a best-effort optimization, not a mandatory requirement, some devices may partially fall back to writing physical zeroes due to factors such as misalignment or being asked to clear a block range smaller than the device's internal allocation unit. Therefore, the speed of this operation is not guaranteed. It is difficult to determine whether the storage device supports unmap write zeroes operation. We cannot determine this by only querying bdev_limits(bdev)->max_write_zeroes_sectors. Therefore, first, add a new hardware queue limit parameters, max_hw_wzeroes_unmap_sectors, to indicate whether a device supports this unmap write zeroes operation. Then, add two new counterpart software queue limits, max_wzeroes_unmap_sectors and max_user_wzeroes_unmap_sectors, which allow users to disable this operation if the speed is very slow on some sepcial devices. Finally, for the stacked devices cases, initialize these two parameters to UINT_MAX. This operation should be enabled by both the stacking driver and all underlying devices. Thanks to Martin K. Petersen for optimizing the documentation of the write_zeroes_unmap sysfs interface. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250619111806.3546162-2-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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