>>>>> "Paolo" == Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Paolo> Why not try DISCARD first if lbprz is true and the alignment is Paolo> okay? This doesn't even require WRITE SAME support in the disk. Because we may want to use WRITE SAME to preallocate or anchor blocks. If you don't care about block allocation then by all means use blkdev_issue_discard(). -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html