Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen-blkfront: remove type checkfrom blkfront_setup_discard

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 13.01.14 at 14:45, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/01/14 13:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 13.01.14 at 14:00, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:34 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 13.01.14 at 13:01, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 13, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You can't do this in one go - the first two and the last one may be
>>>>>> set independently (and are independent in their meaning), and
>>>>>> hence need to be queried independently (xenbus_gather() fails
>>>>>> on the first absent value).
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, thats the purpose. Since the properties are required its an all or
>>>>> nothing thing. If they are truly optional then blkif.h should be updated
>>>>> to say that.
>>>>
>>>> They _are_ optional.
>>>
>>> But is it true that either they are all present or they are all absent?
>> 
>> No, it's not. discard-secure is independent of the other two (but
>> those other two are tied together).
> 
> Can we have a patch to blkif.h that clarifies this?
> 
> e.g.,
> 
> feature-discard
> 
>    ...
> 
>    discard-granularity and discard-offset must also be present if
>    feature-discard is enabled

It would be "may" here too afaict. But I'll defer to Konrad, who
has done more work in this area...

Jan

>    discard-secure may also be present if feature-discard is enabled.
> 
> David



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/