Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: Better discard support for block devices

From: Evan Green
Date: Mon Nov 26 2018 - 13:54:49 EST


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 4:06 PM Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the backing device for a loop device is a block device,
> then mirror the discard properties of the underlying block
> device into the loop device. While in there, differentiate
> between REQ_OP_DISCARD and REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES, which are
> different for block devices, but which the loop device had
> just been lumping together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Any thoughts on this patch? This fixes issues for us when using a loop
device backed by a block device, where we see many logs like:

[ 372.767286] print_req_error: I/O error, dev loop5, sector 88125696

-Evan