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To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> |
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| acorn.c | ||
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| amiga.c | ||
| amiga.h | ||
| atari.c | ||
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| check.c | ||
| check.h | ||
| efi.c | ||
| efi.h | ||
| ibm.c | ||
| ibm.h | ||
| karma.c | ||
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| Kconfig | ||
| ldm.c | ||
| ldm.h | ||
| mac.c | ||
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| msdos.c | ||
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| osf.c | ||
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| sgi.c | ||
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| sun.c | ||
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| sysv68.c | ||
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| ultrix.c | ||
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