From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37367 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNoi9-0007gk-Od for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:35:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNoi8-0000Ex-HX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:35:13 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:58000) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNoi8-0000Ca-8C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:35:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:35:04 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Message-ID: <20101201153504.GA6056@lst.de> References: <20101125135657.GA2814@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101125135657.GA2814@lst.de> Subject: [Qemu-devel] PATCH 0/5] add TRIM/UNMAP support, v2 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org This patchset adds support for the ATA TRIM and SCSI WRITE SAME with unmap commands, which allow reclaiming free space from a backing image. The user facing implementation is pretty complete, but not really efficient because the underlying bdrv_discard implementation doesn't use the aio implementation yet. The reason for that is that the SCSI layer doesn't really allow any asynchronous commands except for READ/WRITE by design, and implementing the ATA TRIM command with it's multiple ranges is rather painful, and combined with the SCSI limitation I didn't bother yet. The only backend support so far is the XFS hole punching ioctl, but others can be added easily when they become available. A virtio implementation for a discard command would also be pretty easy, but until we actually support a better backend then a plain sparse file it's not worth using for production enviroments anyway, but more for playing with the thin provisioning infrastructure, or observing guest behaviour when TRIM / unmap is supported. If the support is enabled and the backend doesn't support hole punching the TRIM / WRITE SAME commands become no-ops so that migration from hosts supporting or not supporting it works. Version 2: - replace tabs with spaces - return -ENOMEDIUM from bdrv_discard if there's no driver assigned - actually list the TP EVPD page as supported when querying for supported EVPD pages