Hi Martin,
I have identified the key difference between the older working kernels
and newer ones; on older kernels the provisioning_mode is set to
'unmap', while on newer kernels it is 'writesame_16'. This is due to
a change in sd_read_block_limits which prevents selection of
SD_LBP_UNMAP if the disk reports lbprz=1, which I'm assuming is the
desired behavior.
As I mentioned previously, one difference between working and failing
kernels is that discard_max_bytes is double the size on the latter.
To determine whether the NetApp incorrectly handles WRITE SAME with
UNMAP in general or if the increase in discard_max_bytes was
responsible, I swapped max_ws_blocks with max_unmap_blocks for WS16
requests in sd_config_discard in my test kernel. Testing with this
change showed UNMAP requests working as expected, indicating that the
discard_max_bytes change is directly responsible for the failing
requests.
The underlying issue seems to be that (per VPD page) the maximum
supported unmap request is 8192 * 512 = 4194304 bytes, while the
maximum write same request is 0x4000 * 512 = 8388608 bytes. It
appears both of these values are correct, and in the case where a WS
UNMAP request larger than 8192 blocks is received the UNMAP is ignored
and the result is effectively a WS ZERO request.
If I'm correct in my understanding, then it seems like the root cause
of the failures is that the current code assumes a disk will always
support WS UNMAP requests up to max_ws_blocks and does not account for
a case where max_unmap_blocks is smaller than max_ws_blocks.
I would think something like this could be a reasonable fix:
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index fe0f799..b0233c2 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -643,6 +643,8 @@ static void sd_config_discard(struct scsi_disk
*sdkp, unsigned int mode)
struct request_queue *q = sdkp->disk->queue;
unsigned int logical_block_size = sdkp->device->sector_size;
unsigned int max_blocks = 0;
+ unsigned int max_ws_unmap_blocks =
+ min_not_zero(sdkp->max_ws_blocks, sdkp->max_unmap_blocks);
q->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0;
@@ -679,7 +681,7 @@ static void sd_config_discard(struct scsi_disk
*sdkp, unsigned int mode)
break;
case SD_LBP_WS16:
- max_blocks = min_not_zero(sdkp->max_ws_blocks,
+ max_blocks = min_not_zero(max_ws_unmap_blocks,
(u32)SD_MAX_WS16_BLOCKS);
q->limits.discard_zeroes_data = sdkp->lbprz;
break;
Thanks yet again for all your help.
-David
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.peter...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
>> I am wondering if part of the issue is that in my use case, UNMAP and
>> WRITE SAME zeros result in very different results. With thin
>> provisioned LUNs, UNMAP requests result in the blocks being freed and
>> thus reduces the actual size of the LUN allocation on disk. If WRITE
>> SAME requests are used to zero the blocks, they remain allocated and
>> thus the real size of the LUN grows to match the allocated size
>> (effectively thick-provisioning the LUN).
>
> The filer explicitly reported support for WRITE SAME(10/16) with UNMAP.
> It seems very odd that it would then completely ignore the UNMAP bit and
> do a regular WRITE SAME.
>
> Are you running latest firmware, btw.?
>
> In any case. The changes I mentioned are now queued up for 4.12. But
> it'll obviously take a while for those to trickle into the
> distributions...
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
