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Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout

From Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout
Date 2016-06-15 23:30 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 07:58:25AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
>
> I didn't follow. io_err is only and always set when ret == 0. io_err is
> meanless if ret != 0, because that means the disk doesn't support discard and
> we don't dispatch discard IO. why should we initialized io_err to 0?

My mistake - I confused what !ret would mean.

Unfortunately the V2 patch no longer cleanly applies to the latest
kernel (db06d759d6cf903aeda8c107fd3abd366dd80200 ) so I can't easily
test it there.

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Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 23:30 +0200

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