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block: add .bdrv_co_write_zeroes() interface
authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:27:25 +0000 (13:27 +0000)
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:17:50 +0000 (16:17 +0100)
commitf08f2ddae078e8a7683f8b16da8e0cc3029c7b89
treebfb375876998a1c425ce6bb018dcd923118b7aea
parent1a6d39fd71ddf90c5b76026cac4d5ff51fbaf8d8
block: add .bdrv_co_write_zeroes() interface

The ability to zero regions of an image file is a useful primitive for
higher-level features such as image streaming or zero write detection.

Image formats may support an optimized metadata representation instead
of writing zeroes into the image file.  This allows zero writes to be
potentially faster than regular write operations and also preserve
sparseness of the image file.

The .bdrv_co_write_zeroes() interface should be implemented by block
drivers that wish to provide efficient zeroing.

Note that this operation is different from the discard operation, which
may leave the contents of the region indeterminate.  That means
discarded blocks are not guaranteed to contain zeroes and may contain
junk data instead.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
block.c
block.h
block_int.h
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