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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"JBeulich@suse.com" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/blkback: Squash the discard support for 'file' and 'phy' type.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:33:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331714035.4092.4.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331679128-27646-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 22:52 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> The only reason for the distinction was for the special case of
> 'file' (which is assumed to be loopback device)

Not related to this patch but how feasible would it be to make blkback
able to cope with files directly?

Ian.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 22:52 [PATCH] xen/blkback: Squash the discard support for 'file' and 'phy' type Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-14  8:33 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-03-14 20:23   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-15  7:43     ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14  9:48 ` Jan Beulich
2012-03-14 16:03   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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