Re: [PATCH v8] virtio_blk: add discard and write zeroes support

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:28:54AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 15/10/2018 11:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There is some issues in this spec.  For one using the multiple ranges
> > also for write zeroes is rather inefficient.  Write zeroes really should
> > use the same format as read and write.
> 
> What makes it inefficient?

We require a memory allocation for each write zeroes instead of encoding
the lba/len in the command.



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