nbd: Implement NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES on client
commitfa778fffdfafce811bba3dd97de41fb524b861f7
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:33:18 +0000 (14 13:33 -0500)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2016 08:28:56 +0000 (2 09:28 +0100)
tree9e44cd06de20db032f56d0aec6ce432318e126a8
parent1f4d6d18edfeaea64ae74bf5254b8d0e923dc73f
nbd: Implement NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES on client

Upstream NBD protocol recently added the ability to efficiently
write zeroes without having to send the zeroes over the wire,
along with a flag to control whether the client wants a hole.

The generic block code takes care of falling back to the obvious
write of lots of zeroes if we return -ENOTSUP because the server
does not have WRITE_ZEROES.

Ideally, since NBD_CMD_WRITE_ZEROES does not involve any data
over the wire, we want to support transactions that are much
larger than the normal 32M limit imposed on NBD_CMD_WRITE.  But
the server may still have a limit smaller than UINT_MAX, so
until experimental NBD protocol additions for advertising various
command sizes is finalized (see [1], [2]), for now we just stick to
the same limits as normal writes.

[1] https://github.com/yoe/nbd/blob/extension-info/doc/proto.md
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/nbd/mailman/message/35081223/

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1476469998-28592-17-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
block/nbd-client.c
block/nbd-client.h
block/nbd.c