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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2016-10-14 13:33:18 -0500
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-11-02 09:28:56 +0100
commitfa778fffdfafce811bba3dd97de41fb524b861f7 (patch)
tree9e44cd06de20db032f56d0aec6ce432318e126a8 /qemu-char.c
parent1f4d6d18edfeaea64ae74bf5254b8d0e923dc73f (diff)
nbd: Implement NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES on client
Upstream NBD protocol recently added the ability to efficiently write zeroes without having to send the zeroes over the wire, along with a flag to control whether the client wants a hole. The generic block code takes care of falling back to the obvious write of lots of zeroes if we return -ENOTSUP because the server does not have WRITE_ZEROES. Ideally, since NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES does not involve any data over the wire, we want to support transactions that are much larger than the normal 32M limit imposed on NBD_CMD_WRITE. But the server may still have a limit smaller than UINT_MAX, so until experimental NBD protocol additions for advertising various command sizes is finalized (see [1], [2]), for now we just stick to the same limits as normal writes. [1] https://github.com/yoe/nbd/blob/extension-info/doc/proto.md [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/nbd/mailman/message/35081223/ Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1476469998-28592-17-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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