From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, "Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm-kcopyd: optionally zero an area instead of copying
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:04:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110609100429.GE3152@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1106081753570.7811@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:55:37PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
>
> This patch introduces an option to kcopyd to zero requested area instead
> of copying. I think Joe may need something like this in his snapshot
> store.
Could we have another function please, rather than overloading the
existing entry point?
i.e.,
int dm_kcopyd_zero(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
unsigned num_dests, struct dm_io_region *dests,
unsigned flags, dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context);
Thanks,
- Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-09 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 21:55 [PATCH] dm-kcopyd: optionally zero an area instead of copying Mikulas Patocka
2011-06-09 10:04 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2011-06-09 15:36 ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-06-23 14:34 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-06-23 15:24 ` Mikulas Patocka
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