RE: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio-blk: add DISCARD support to virtio-blk driver

From: Liu, Changpeng
Date: Mon Mar 27 2017 - 21:52:16 EST




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> Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio-blk: add DISCARD support to virtio-blk driver
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> On 28/03/2017 10:39, Changpeng Liu wrote:
> > + if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_DISCARD)) {
> > + q->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0;
>
> Maybe you could use another feature bit to populate discard_zeroes_data.
>
> Paolo
>
Sounds good to me, Christoph Hellwig mentioned this field will be removed in next release, just removed this line makes clear.
> > + q->limits.discard_alignment = blk_size;
> > + q->limits.discard_granularity = blk_size;
> > + blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(q, UINT_MAX);
> > + blk_queue_max_discard_segments(q, 1);
> > + queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, q);
> > + }
> > +
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