From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Wipe patch
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:41:52 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C72AD0.1090004@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7F148C986A2A84F930FEB8C3B169EA002FBC89D@OPDMEXO01.omnitel.it>
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> Hi,
> well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
> able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
> disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
> allocate all space. This just patch detect null byte writes and do not
> write all zero byte clusters.
This _looks_ like it would severely impact cpu load during a write.
Have you done any testing to determine if this is likely to impact a normal usage scenario?
Brad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-26 8:23 [Qemu-devel] Wipe patch ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
2006-07-26 8:41 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2006-07-26 9:19 ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-26 9:35 ` Brad Campbell
2006-08-02 2:25 ` Brad Campbell
2006-08-02 2:49 ` andrzej zaborowski
2006-08-02 2:51 ` andrzej zaborowski
2006-08-02 3:09 ` Brad Campbell
2006-08-02 7:39 ` Nigel Horne
2006-08-02 17:32 ` Andreas Bollhalder
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-26 8:48 ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
2006-07-26 9:42 ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
2006-07-26 9:52 ` Brad Campbell
2006-08-02 12:53 ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
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