Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] qemu-img: conditionally discard target on convert

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 15/07/2013 12:49, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
> this adds the proposed solution to add a generic mechanism to zeroize
> a target in qemu-img if it has discard_zeroes but has_zero_init is 0.
> 
> Peter Lieven (4):
>   block: add discard_zeroes and max_unmap to BlockDriverInfo
>   iscsi: add .bdrv_get_info
>   block/raw: add .bdrv_get_info
>   qemu-img: conditionally discard target on convert
> 
>  block/iscsi.c         |   19 +++++++++++++++--
>  block/raw.c           |    6 ++++++
>  include/block/block.h |    5 +++++
>  qemu-img.c            |   56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good.  Perhaps, as a followup, you can use max_unmap (which I'd
rename to max_discard) in bdrv_co_discard to support splitting the
request.  You could also export the discard alignment in BlockDriverInfo.

Paolo