From qemu-devel  Fri Mar 09 10:53:31 2012
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha () gmail ! com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:53:31 +0000
To: qemu-devel
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 14/17] block: support FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE trimming
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 09/03/2012 11:31, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>>> > +#ifdef FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
>>> > + =A0 =A0retval =3D fallocate(s->fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE|FALLOC_FL_K=
EEP_SIZE,
>>> > + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 sector_num << 9, (int64=
_t)nb_sectors << 9);
>> I'm concerned about introducing blocking syscalls in coroutine code
>> paths. =A0This needs to be done asynchronously.
>
> Right; it is no worse than what is already there, except that XFS could
> use paio_ioctl. =A0Alternatives are:

It is worse in the sense that if you make this feature more widely
available then it deserves a production-quality implementation.

> 1) require a new-enough kernel and only use fallocate; return a NULL
> aiocb if !has_discard and convert it to ENOTSUP.
>
> 2) extract now from my threads branch the work to generalize
> posix-aio-compat into a more flexible threadpool, and move the AIO code
> back to block/raw-posix.c.

3) Add discard to posix-aio-compat.c as an AIO request?

Stefan