From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-scsi vs. virtio-blk
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:28:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5024E232.5020706@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5024E06A.4070603@redhat.com>
I'm using iscsi. So no raw or qcow2. XFS as FS.
Thanks,
Stefan
Am 10.08.2012 12:20, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 10/08/2012 11:22, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG ha scritto:
>> virtio-scsi is now working fine. Could you please help me to get discard
>> / trim running? I can't find any information what is needed to get
>> discard / trim working.
>
> You need to add discard_granularity=NNN, where NNN is usually 512 for
> raw and the cluster size (65536) for qcow2.
>
> However, discard is supported only for XFS on raw, and on qcow2 it will
> not reclaim space---the space will only be reused for future qcow2
> allocation.
>
> Better support for discard on raw (other filesystems + block devices),
> and more efficient support also on other formats is on my todo list for
> the future. However, an efficient implementation unfortunately requires
> changes at all levels including the kernel.
>
> I hope to present something about it at KVM Forum.
>
> Paolo
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-10 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-08 15:21 [Qemu-devel] virtio-scsi vs. virtio-blk Stefan Priebe
2012-08-08 16:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-08 17:12 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-08 17:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 6:13 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-09 7:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 7:07 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-09 7:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 7:41 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-09 7:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 8:00 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-09 8:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 9:18 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-09 10:17 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 11:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-09 11:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 11:24 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 12:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 12:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 12:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 12:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 15:41 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 12:52 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-09 13:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 13:39 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 13:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 13:52 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-09 14:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 14:25 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 9:22 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 10:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-10 10:28 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
2012-08-10 10:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-10 11:12 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-10 11:57 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 12:04 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-10 12:14 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 12:24 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-10 12:35 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 12:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-10 12:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 11:20 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-10 11:54 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 11:58 ` ronnie sahlberg
2012-08-10 12:38 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-08-10 11:49 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
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