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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: make the queue depth the max supportable by the hypervisor
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:06:08 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878urop4if.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QV_mf9D0t5ozWRRsMO1Wq7OTQ8SiOKh-HrW7buzNQQngQ@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:22:50PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>>>
>>> It's head of my virtio-next tree.
>>
>> Hey Rusty,
>>
>> While we have your attention --- what's your opinion about adding TRIM
>> support to virtio-blk.  I understand that you're starting an OASIS
>> standardization process for virtio --- what does that mean vis-a-vis a
>> patch to plumb discard support through virtio-blk?
>
> virtio-scsi already supports discard.  But maybe you cannot switch
> away from virtio-blk?
>
> If you need to add discard to virtio-blk then it could be added to the
> standard.  The standards text is kept in a svn repository here:
> https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/virtio/

It would be trivial to add, and I wouldn't be completely opposed, but we
generally point to virtio-scsi when people want actual features.

Cheers,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-04  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1394841445-16142-1-git-send-email-venkateshs@google.com>
2014-03-15  3:34 ` [PATCH] virtio-blk: make the queue depth the max supportable by the hypervisor Theodore Ts'o
2014-03-15 10:57   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-15 13:20     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-03-15 13:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-15 15:13     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-03-17  0:42   ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-17  5:40     ` tytso
2014-03-19  6:28       ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-19 17:48         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2014-03-25 18:50           ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2014-03-31  3:52             ` Rusty Russell
2014-04-01  2:27               ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-01 10:49                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-04-02  7:36                   ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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