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-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev_compat.h24
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev_compat.h b/include/linux/blkdev_compat.h
index a5294ceba..1ff8eeaf3 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev_compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev_compat.h
@@ -394,13 +394,27 @@ bio_set_flags_failfast(struct block_device *bdev, int *flags)
/*
* 2.6.30 API change
- * Change to make it explicit there this is the logical block size.
+ * To ensure good performance preferentially use the physical block size
+ * for proper alignment. The physical size is supposed to be the internal
+ * sector size used by the device. This is often 4096 byte for AF devices,
+ * while a smaller 512 byte logical size is supported for compatibility.
+ *
+ * Unfortunately, many drives still misreport their physical sector size.
+ * For devices which are known to lie you may need to manually set this
+ * at pool creation time with 'zpool create -o ashift=12 ...'.
+ *
+ * When the physical block size interface isn't available, we fall back to
+ * the logical block size interface and then the older hard sector size.
*/
-#ifdef HAVE_BDEV_LOGICAL_BLOCK_SIZE
-# define vdev_bdev_block_size(bdev) bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)
+#ifdef HAVE_BDEV_PHYSICAL_BLOCK_SIZE
+# define vdev_bdev_block_size(bdev) bdev_physical_block_size(bdev)
#else
-# define vdev_bdev_block_size(bdev) bdev_hardsect_size(bdev)
-#endif
+# ifdef HAVE_BDEV_LOGICAL_BLOCK_SIZE
+# define vdev_bdev_block_size(bdev) bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)
+# else
+# define vdev_bdev_block_size(bdev) bdev_hardsect_size(bdev)
+# endif /* HAVE_BDEV_LOGICAL_BLOCK_SIZE */
+#endif /* HAVE_BDEV_PHYSICAL_BLOCK_SIZE */
/*
* 2.6.37 API change