block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:19:28 +0000 (12:19 -0400)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:31:49 +0000 (14:31 +0200)
If the device supports WRITE SAME, use that to optimize zeroing of
blocks. If the device does not support WRITE SAME or if the operation
fails, fall back to writing zeroes the old-fashioned way.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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