Re: [Qemu-devel] Wipe patch

[Brad Campbell]

Avi Kivity wrote:

> > 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?
>
> Why would it? In most cases, the zero test would terminate quickly, 
> without accessing the entire cluster.

Good point, when I looked at it my brain was in zero wipe mode.. which would be slow but then a 
bucketload faster than writing the actual cluster to disk..

Brad
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