On Thu 30 Apr 2020 01:10:22 PM CEST, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > We are generally moving to int64_t for both offset and bytes parameters > on all io paths. > > Main motivation is realization of 64-bit write_zeroes operation for > fast zeroing large disk chunks, up to the whole disk. > > We chose signed type, to be consistent with off_t (which is signed) and > with possibility for signed return type (where negative value means > error). > > So, prepare bdrv_aligned_pwritev() now and convert the dependencies: > bdrv_co_write_req_prepare() and bdrv_co_write_req_finish() to signed > type bytes. > > Series: 64bit-block-status > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <[email protected]> Berto
