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 to allow
a hole.
Note that when it comes to requiring full allocation, vs.
permitting optimizations, the NBD spec intentionally picked a
different sense for the flag; the rules in qemu are:
MAY_UNMAP == 0: must write zeroes
MAY_UNMAP == 1: may use holes if reads will see zeroes
while in NBD, the rules are:
FLAG_NO_HOLE == 1: must write zeroes
FLAG_NO_HOLE == 0: may use holes if reads will see zeroes
In all cases, the 'may use holes' scenario is optional (the
server need not use a hole, and must not use a hole if
subsequent reads would not see zeroes).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1476469998-28592-16-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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