From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
keith.busch@intel.com, kwolf@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] nvme: Implement Write Zeroes
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 11:51:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170505095105.GA6630@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f282c1fb-6c8b-a16d-8ce0-5ce244ec4fb2@redhat.com>
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> could you pass BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP for the flags here if the deallocate
> bit (dword 12 bit 25) is set?
In fact we should do that unconditonally. The deallocate bit is new
in 1.3 (which we don't claim to support) and forces deallocating, but
NVMe already allows for this behavior without the flag (we in fact
explicitly clarified this in an ECN for 1.2.1).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-05 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-05 9:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] nvme: Implement Write Zeroes Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 9:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-05 9:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-05-05 10:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-05 10:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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