Il 18/07/2013 11:23, Kevin Wolf ha scritto: > Am 17.07.2013 um 19:48 hat Peter Lieven geschrieben: >> >> Am 17.07.2013 um 19:04 schrieb Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>: >> >>> Il 17/07/2013 19:02, Peter Lieven ha scritto: >>>> For Disks we always use read/write16 so i think we Should also use >>>> writesame16. Or not? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> Remember you can still use UNMAP if LBPRZ=0. >> >> I can always use it if writesame is not available, but in this case >> bdi->discard_zeroes must be 0. >> >> Maybe we should call it discard_writes_zeroes or similar. >> >> Discard_zeroes is sth that should only indicate if lbprz == 1. At least if >> we refer to the Linux ioctl. We could include both in BDI. > > Maybe what we really should do is to define different operations (with > an exact behaviour) instead of having one bdrv_discard() and then adding > flags everywhere to tell what the operation is doing exactly.
A BDRV_MAY_UNMAP flag for bdrv_write_zeroes? Paolo
