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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/12] block: add logical block provisioning inf
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/12] block: add logical block provisioning information to BlockDriverInfo |
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Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:45:11 +0200 |
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Il 13/09/2013 12:44, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> On 13.09.2013 12:34, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 13/09/2013 12:25, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
>>> + /* maximum number of sectors that can be discarded at once */
>>> + int max_discard;
>>> + /* maximum number of sectors that can zeroized at once */
>>> + int max_write_zeroes;
>> These should not be needed outside the driver.
>>
>> If you want to make them private between block.c and block/iscsi.c, you
>> can add them to BlockDriverState.
> The question is, if the discard_zeroes or discard_write_zeroes is needed
> outside the driver as well?
>
> I can put the max_* information in the block driver state. I also thought
> to add alignment and granularity information even if they are currently
> not yet used.
Yeah, in fact bdrv_write_zeroes and bdrv_discard can be taught to split
requests according to these parameters instead of introducing a new
function bdrv_zeroize. You don't need bdrv_zeroize I think; you can
simply use bdrv_write_zeroes. This is why I don't like this information
in BlockDriverInfo.
On the contrary, discard_write_zeroes is useful to "generic" clients,
and your qemu-img patch shows why.
Discard_zeroes is somewhere in the middle. You only use it in
bdrv_get_block_status, but it is not something that should be hidden to
users of the high-level block.c API. So it is fine to leave it in
BlockDriverInfo.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/12] qemu-img: conditionally zero out target on convert, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/12] block: introduce bdrv_zeroize, Peter Lieven, 2013/09/13
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/12] block: add logical block provisioning information to BlockDriverInfo, Peter Lieven, 2013/09/13
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/12] iscsi: add .bdrv_get_info, Peter Lieven, 2013/09/13
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/12] block/get_block_status: avoid redundant callouts on raw devices, Peter Lieven, 2013/09/13
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/12] block/get_block_status: set *pnum = 0 on error, Peter Lieven, 2013/09/13