On 24.09.2016 15:06, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > On 24.09.2016 00:21, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:00:06PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: >>> My preference would be a new flag to the existing commands, with >>> explicit documentation that 0 offset and 0 length must be used with >>> that >>> flag, when requesting a full-device wipe. >> Alternatively, what about a flag that says "if you use this flag, the >> size should be left-shifted by X bits before processing"? That allows >> you to do TRIM or WRITE_ZEROES on much larger chunks, without being >> limited to "whole disk" commands. We should probably make it an illegal >> flag for any command that actually sends data over the wire, though. >> > > > Note: if disk size is not aligned to X we will have to send request > larger than the disk size to clear the whole disk.
which is not beautiful.. And splitting the request into two: (disk_size / X * X) and (disk_size % X) is not beautiful too. May be flag, that says 'whole disk request' is more appropriate? Nothing prevents adding then flag about X-shift. -- Best regards, Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
