Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.7 v5 00/14] nbd: efficient write zeroes

[Eric Blake]

On 07/19/2016 02:53 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>> The upstream NBD protocol is proposing an extension for efficient
>> write zeroes; having a qemu implementation will be one of the reasons
>> to promote the proposal from experimental to standard:
>> https://github.com/yoe/nbd/blob/extension-write-zeroes/doc/proto.md
>>
>> v4 was here:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg07463.html
>>
>> Prerequisites:
>> v3 Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg03550.html
>> v2 byte-based block discard:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg03592.html
>>
>> Also available as a tag at:
>> git fetch git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd-zero-v5
>>
>> changes since v4:
>> - patch 2 - Rebase to latest
>> - patch 6, 10 - Address review comments [Paolo]
>> - patch 14 - Update commit message to address review comments [Paolo]
> 
> I'm sorry, it's too late for 2.7 now.

Fair enough.  I'll pull out the bug fixes (at least 1/14 is still 2.7
material) and re-submit those along with the other pending block bug
fixes that I need to do in hard freeze (iscsi with the 15M unmap/zero
granularity).

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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