Re: [PATCH v5 08/11] block/io: allow 64bit write-zeroes requests

[Eric Blake]

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:49:58AM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> Now, when all drivers are updated by previous commit, we can drop two

s/Now, when/Now that/

> last limiters on write-zeroes path: INT_MAX in
> bdrv_co_do_pwrite_zeroes() and bdrv_check_request32() in
> bdrv_co_pwritev_part().
> 
> Now everything is prepared for implementing incredibly cool and fast
> big-write-zeroes in NBD and qcow2. And any other driver which wants it
> of course.

I got a chuckle out of this incredibly cool description ;)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  block/io.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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