On Mon 14 Jan 2019 12:18:30 PM CET, Anton Nefedov wrote:
> If COW areas of the newly allocated clusters are zeroes on the backing image,
> efficient bdrv_write_zeroes(flags=BDRV_REQ_ALLOCATE) can be used on the whole
> cluster instead of writing explicit zero buffers later in perform_cow().
>
> iotest 060:
> write to the discarded cluster does not trigger COW anymore.
> Use a backing image instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefe...@virtuozzo.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com>

> +        ret = handle_alloc_space(bs, l2meta);

I insist that it would be nice to have a short comment explaining what
this does.

Berto

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