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    [PATCH] libata: use FLUSH_EXT only when driver is larger than LBA28 limit · 6fc49adb
    Tejun Heo 提交于
    Many drives support LBA48 even when its capacity is smaller than
    1<<28, as LBA48 is required for many functionalities.  FLUSH_EXT is
    mandatory for drives w/ LBA48 support.
    
    Interestingly, at least one of such drives (ST960812A) has problems
    dealing with FLUSH_EXT.  It eventually completes the command but takes
    around 7 seconds to finish in many cases thus drastically slowing down
    IO transactions.  This seems to be a firmware bug which sneaked into
    production probably because no other ATA driver including linux IDE
    issues FLUSH_EXT to drives which report support for LBA48 & FLUSH_EXT
    but is smaller than 1<<28 blocks.
    
    This patch adds ATA_DFLAG_FLUSH_EXT which is set iff the drive
    supports LBA48 & FLUSH_EXT and is larger than LBA28 limit.  Both cache
    flush paths are updated to issue FLUSH_EXT only when the flag is set.
    Note that the changed behavior is more inline with the rest of libata.
    libata prefers shorter commands whenever possible.
    Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
    Cc: Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@novell.com>
    Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@novell.com>
    Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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