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qcow2: Inform block layer about discard boundaries
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:13:55 +0000 (14:13 -0600)
committerMichael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:48:19 +0000 (17:48 -0600)
commitc4bf37e0b0f09d9f51d8407c3e51093d44348008
tree6ca47a4ec8bb39c6f67b58b6ad94184ba5f138e8
parente9dbd28e2a312483cc15613342ab31b962980344
qcow2: Inform block layer about discard boundaries

At the qcow2 layer, discard is only possible on a per-cluster
basis; at the moment, qcow2 silently rounds any unaligned
requests to this granularity.  However, an upcoming patch will
fix a regression in the block layer ignoring too much of an
unaligned discard request, by changing the block layer to
break up a discard request at alignment boundaries; for that
to work, the block layer must know about our limits.

However, we can't go one step further by changing
qcow2_discard_clusters() to assert that requests are always
aligned, since that helper function is reached on paths
outside of the block layer.

CC: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit ecdbead659f037dc572bba9eb1cd31a5a1a9ad9a)
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
block/qcow2.c